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Broadview mayor urges community support, seeks federal reimbursement after protests near ICE facility
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Summary
Mayor Katrina Thompson told the board the village spent $715,000 responding to protests near a local ICE facility and urged trustees and residents to press congressional delegations for federal reimbursement; she also described a Harvard fellowship project, the 'Broadview Justice Corridor.'
At the March 23 special meeting, Mayor Katrina Thompson described ongoing protests near a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility and said Broadview has incurred about $715,000 in costs related to police, fire, legal work and impacts on some businesses.
Thompson said she has been meeting with members and staff of the Illinois congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., seeking federal reimbursement and planned to return in two weeks for further discussions. She urged trustees and residents to be vocal at board meetings and in communications with elected representatives to press the reimbursement case.
The mayor characterized some protesters as aggressive and said the village’s small police department has faced hostility while protecting residents and staff. "They deserve to go home at night to their families as well," Thompson said, and she said her administration has been consulting legal counsel on related issues.
Thompson also described a project connected to her Harvard fellowship, the "Broadview Justice Corridor," intended to reimagine a space near the ICE center; she asked trustees and residents to participate in a short video to help illustrate the village’s story.
The transcript records the mayor’s statement of the $715,000 figure and her description of protesters’ behavior; the meeting record does not contain independent verification of the cost total or of law-enforcement assessments beyond Thompson’s account.
