The ice chief explodes the “violent rioters”, the mayor disrupting immigration operations

The acting director of the ice, Todd Lyons, retaliated on a progressive mayor who accused the agency of carrying out a war against his community and criticized “violent rioters” which, according to him, “besieged” the operations of application of immigration in the Chicago region for weeks.

The BroadView ice cream treatment center, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, has been at the center of chaotic demonstrations for weeks. The demonstrators blocked the law enforcement vehicles and shouted threats to the police. In response, federal law enforcement agents have repeatedly deployed riot control measures and arrests.

Friday, the mayor of BroadView, Katrina Thompson, sent a letter to the director of the ICE office on the Russell Hott field last week in which she accused the agency of “wage war” on her community and of “endangering residents of the neighboring village” with her response to demonstrations, WTTW reported.

In response, Ice accused Thompson of “distorting reality” and of “pointing his finger in the wrong direction, while our officers protect his community – and others – real threats, while faced with arrow violence against them, including the installation of BroadView.”

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Federal law enforcement agents break the demonstrators outside an immigrant transformation center with a drop -off gas dam and pepper bullets on September 27, 2025 on BroadView, Illinois. (Getty Images)

The agency said that “during last week, violent rioters were arrested for assault and obstruction, and three of them transported firearms loaded to protest”.

Lyon responded to Thompson with a follow -up letter this week in which he criticized him for warming the rhetoric against ice and allowed “agitators to degenerate violence”, placing federal officers and residents in the manner of evil.

He said that repeated requests for assistance from local and local police forces, including the BroadView Police Service, have remained unanswered, forcing federal officials to take their own crowd control measures.

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“If our officers received the support they need, the crowd control measures referenced in your letter would not be necessary,” he wrote.

He said the crowds had presented a direct threat to the life of the police.

“Songs of” ice shot “and physical attempts to break the installation of BroadView cannot be rejected as peaceful demonstrations. They are direct threats to the life of federal and public security,” he wrote. “The incessant actions of these people – and their attempts to hinder the application of federal law – are unacceptable.”

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Federal agents come up against demonstrators outside the Ice BroadView Processing Center in the suburbs of Chicago. (Dominic Gwinn / Getty Images)

“These rioters constitute the seat and interfere with the legitimate operations of the application of laws. The fact of not helping to relieve a part of you in the obstruction of justice,” he continued, adding: “You can either continue to be part of the problem, or to remove violent offenders.”

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David Ormsby, spokesperson for BroadView, rejected Lyons’ letter, saying to Fox News Digital: “Ice’s interim director had to use Grok AI to compose his letter, because he is full of hallucinations.”