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Multiple protesters were arrested after clashing with ICE agents outside a facility in Broadview Friday as the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in Chicago continue.

Organizers say they plan to demonstrate weekly at the boarded up facility as long as "Operation Midway Blitz" is underway.

Video from intense moments Friday morning showed white smoke be deployed as crowds of people dispersed. Clashes with agents were mainly seen when agents were entering or leaving the facility in a vehicle.

Some demonstrators were seen either intentionally getting in the way or standing on federal property when asked to move. That is when agents resorted to using tear gas.

Demonstrators ABC7 spoke with explained why it was important for them be out there Friday morning.

"Just been really horrified that seeing this ramped up ICE presence in our neighborhoods and in Chicago and I think it is important to come out and say, 'We don't want this,'" Erica Sagrans said.

"It's critically important right now," demonstrator Dave said. "We can't just be silent while things are going on as they are today."

Two demonstrators were seen being detained Friday by ICE agents. At the time of both arrests, agents were trying to move vehicles and the demonstrators were in the way and not moving.

"We have here a federal government that is actively working against its people, that is doing everything possible to divide them," Alderman Andre Vasquez said. "They are building the same system that they are going to use for everyone else."

In a statement, DHS said: "rioters assaulted law enforcement, threw tear gas cans, slashed tires of cars, blocked the entrance of the building, and trespassed on private property. Police under JB Pritzker's sanctuary jurisdiction refused to answer multiple calls for assistance. So far, federal law enforcement arrested three rioters. Our ICE enforcement officers are facing a more than 1000% increase in assaults against them. Disturbingly, in recent days, two ICE officers' have had cars used as weapons against them."

Friday's protest comes a week after video appears to show ICE agents using pepper balls on demonstrators outside this same facility.

On Thursday, a student was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody near the Elgin Community College's main campus, school officials said.

The incident happened in the morning in a parking lot outside of a main campus building, school officials said.

The arrest appeared to be an isolated event.

No other information regarding the student was released.

ABC7 has reached out to ICE for comment.

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Agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rolled into Chicago suburbs Tuesday morning, on a mission to make arrests of alleged criminals living here illegally.

But the ABC7 I-Team is looking at the people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, trying to answer who they are.

It was still pitch dark when masked agents marched a man out of his Elgin home in handcuffs Tuesday morning, his arrest captured in a video posted by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

In the video clip, Noem can be seen boarding an ICE vehicle along with agents, in-person for what her department has dubbed "Operation Midway Blitz."

But when Vanessa Morales-Coix of West Chicago saw the video, she immediately recognized a close family friend: Jose Morales.

"It was hard," Morales-Coix told the I-Team, fighting back tears. "Just because my family and I grew up with him."

Jose Morales was featured in part of the proof of performance video Noem shared on social media, with a caption reading in part, "This morning... DHS took violent offenders off the streets... accused of assault, DUI and felony stalking."

Morales says the man she knows as "Chilez" has lived in Elgin with his cousin as long as she can remember.

"It's sad that, you know, they're saying that they're going after criminals, and neither of them were," Morales-Coix said. "He had his work permit."

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As immigration enforcement operations ramped up throughout the suburbs on Tuesday, people gathered in Melrose Park to rally and march against ICE's presence in Illinois. State lawmakers joined immigration activists as they made their voices heard.

Dozens of protesters marched along North Avenue, flying the flags of various Latin American countries whose native citizens feel increasingly under attack. They include Mexicans, in particular, who are celebrating that country's Independence Day.

"I take very personal that this year has been very different. We are in fear that we cannot celebrate our motherland in the country that I call home today," said Nancy Salgado with the West Suburban Action Project.

Even as immigration officials announced the arrests of whom they say are undocumented criminals around the city and suburbs, those rallying rejected those claims. They are also continuing to call for transparency surrounding the death of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was killed by an ICE agent following a traffic stop in Franklin Park last week.

"They don't want to release it because it's not helping them build the story or the argument that people are here trying to hurt the community," said Marien Casillas Pabellón with the West Suburban Action Project.

ICE said Villegas-Gonzalez struck an officer with his car and dragged him while trying to get away. That officer then fatally shot Villegas-Gonzalez.

DHS said Villegas-Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal history of reckless driving. An officer hurt in the incident is still recovering.

State lawmakers representing Melrose Park and Cicero joined Tuesday's protest.

"When the most powerful court in the nation says racial profiling is OK... we know we have gone backwards," said Deputy Majority Leader and Illinois state Rep. Lisa Hernandez, D-Cicero.

Immigration advocates called for an immediate end to the ongoing detentions. They are struggling to keep track of just how many people have been picked up by federal agents so far.

"Yesterday, there was a big ICE operation in West Chicago. Today, there is a big ICE operation in Elgin. We're continuing to get calls throughout the morning from different suburban and city areas," said Brandon Lee with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Illinois Congresswoman Lauren Underwood said on Tuesday that according to a recent briefing from ICE, some 250 people from the Chicago area have been taken into custody since Sept. 6. Those who are detained and processed are being transferred to detention centers in Indiana and Wisconsin.