BROADVIEW, Ill. (WLS) — Protesters gathered outside the Broadview ICE facility Friday morning.
This comes as immigration agents arrested a Southwest Side tamale vendor on Thursday.
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Laura Murillo is currently being held at the Broadview facility. She was taken into ICE custody while working near a Home Depot store.
Footage captures the well-known tamale seller being apprehended, with ICE officers removing her from a car and handcuffing her in the Back of the Yards area of the city.
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Murillo’s daughter mentioned that her mother has lived in the US for many years. As the 54-year-old mother of four was being detained, she was reaching out to her fiancé.
“She was repeatedly saying, ‘You’re hurting me, you’re hurting me,’ and they just grabbed the phone from her. The arresting officer then asked, ‘Do you want the keys?’ and I replied, ‘No, I want her. We are engaged,’ but he simply turned off the phone,” stated Jaime Perez, Murillo’s fiancé.
Her family said Murillo has no known criminal record.
This unfolded as Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks was also in Chicago.
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He shared a video of his own distress on the ground while agents declared, “The mission here is as important as anywhere else on the line. We will not allow criminal aliens to establish themselves in our communities.”
ABC7 has reached out to ICE for comment on the arrest but they referred us to Border Patrol and not heard back.
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