CHICAGO — Katherine “Kat” Abughazaleh, a Democratic candidate for Illinois 9 th Congressional District, is among six people indicted for allegedly “impeding” a federal immigration agent during a protest last month outside a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility.

The charges are contained in an 11-page federal indictment made public Wednesday accusing the group of conspiring to “interrupt, hinder, and impede” the agent from the “discharge of his official duties” on the morning of Sept. 26. The confrontation marked the height of protests outside the ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview in the weeks after the Trump administration launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” a still-ongoing immigration enforcement campaign that has s o far re

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