Illinois senator demands to meet with Ice amid clashes at immigration facility

Dick Durbin renews push to talk to Trump officials as operations and protests escalate at Broadview facility

After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials.

Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be accountable for its actions" amid the administration's cruel immigration crackdown". The post on Sunday morning came after Saturday night protests and arrests at an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois.