We filed suit to ensure that immigrants detained at ICE’s Broadview facility have access to constitutionally adequate conditions, and access to legal counsel so they can exercise their rights.
In September 2025, the Trump Administration launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” a coordinated set of reckless and violent immigration activities in the Chicagoland area. As a result of these actions, hundreds of people in the region have been arrested and taken into custody.
The Broadview ICE Facility is the primary location for those arrested to be introduced to the immigration detention system. Broadview was meant to be a “holding” facility, a way station where people are briefly held for processing before being moved to a longer-term detention facility.. But the facility has become overcrowded and conditions have deteriorated dramatically as people are being detained for days on end at Broadview.
The lawsuit makes clear that detainees at Broadview are regularly denied ample room to sleep, ample food and water and hygiene and generally suffer during detention. The lawsuit also challenges the policy of blocking detainees from accessing their legal counsel at Broadview, including by making confidential, private calls to attorneys impossible.
In short, Broadview has become a black box. Attorneys, elected officials, members of the clergy and others are blocked from entering. As a result, federal agents are acting with impunity. They are coercing detainees to sign paperwork that they do not understand, leading people to unknowingly relinquish their rights to challenge removal and seek release.
We are joined in this lawsuit by lawyers from the MacArthur Justice Center and the Chicago office of Eimer Stahl.
