‘He sat in a parking lot weeping’, image of a husband outside Broadview ICE detention centre goes viral

A post on X (formerly Twitter) has gone viral, showing a heartbreaking scene outside a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in suburban Chicago . The post, shared by user @maddenifico, claims that a man’s wife went missing inside the Broadview ICE facility. The post includes two emotional photos of a man in a suit sitting on the ground in a parking lot beside a wall outside what appears to be the facility. In one image, he’s hunched over with his face in his hands and in the other, he looks down at his phone with tearful, helpless eyes.

The post says the man sat in the parking lot, crying and confused, with no answers about what had happened to her wife. “He tracked her phone to Broadview where the signal cut off. Police told him to just look up her name online. He sat