Four hit with federal charges related to ICE protests

Four people are faced with federal charges from weekend demonstrations at the American immigration and customs application in the suburbs of BroadView which has become a flash point for the repression of the ongoing immigration of the Trump administration.

One of these accused, Paul Iavery, would have told an agent “I will (explanive) kill you now” before trying to escape the arrest by jumping on a car, according to a criminal complaint made public on Monday.

Also arrested a husband and a woman, Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, who would each have accused firearms with them as they escaped officers who were trying to widen a security perimeter, another alleged complaint.

The fourth person charged, Hubert Mazur, would also have fought from officers who were trying to repel the crowd, according to a criminal complaint against him.

All charges arise from the same incident on Saturday evening outside the BroadView installation which saw agents deploy tear gas and other weapons on demonstrators. Federal officials said a total of 11 people had been placed in police custody, including a journalist.

The demonstrators organized almost daily demonstrations in the ICE installation since the DHS announced earlier this month that it launched “the Midway Blitz operation” to intensify the measures to apply the law targeting immigrants without permanent legal status.

On Friday and Saturday, federal agents fired tear gas and relay tours against the demonstrators, continuing a trend in events that have become increasingly physical between officials and demonstrators. The accusations also came one day after the agents of ice and border patrol made a show of force in the city center.

Tensions have also increased between BroadView and ice officials. During the last week, federal officials denied information that Ice planned to leave the two -story brick building and rather installed fences that block part of the road outside the installation. While the DHS argued that the closure is for public security, the village officials said that it had been “illegally constructed” because it was installed without a license and that the closure prevents emergency staff from accessing the parties of the suburbs.

According to the charges tabled during the weekend, IVery joined the demonstrations on Saturday evening and was about six inches from the face of a customs agent and border patrol when he threatens to kill him. The officer hunted and attacked Iver on the ground, and in the fight that followed, the officer’s helmet became “aspect, exhibiting him temporarily at the nearby spray,” said the complaint.

IVERY later told investigators he had come to BroadView to protest because he was disappointed that ice agents “were disrespectful towards the BroadView police service and the veterans,” alleged the complaint.

The complaint against Robledo and Collins, for their part, allegedly alleged that they had pushed agents who “tried to prolong the perimeter”. During the fight, the agents observed a semi-automatic pistol of 9 mm of GFORCE charged with 9 mm in the belt of Robledo. Collins shouted the agents to move away from his wife and “accused towards the agents”, wounding one in the fight that followed, according to the complaint.

“After the agents managed to remember Collins and place him in a state of arrest, they discovered that he was also using a firearm in his belt,” alleged the complaint. The pistol was a semi-automatic pistol of Century Arms from Century 9 mm, according to the accusations.

DHS later published photos of firearms on social networks.

Lawyers of the four accused were not registered in the court file on Monday. The information on the courts was not immediately available.

jmeisner@chicagogne.com