A BROADVIEW Company that has found itelf in the middle of an ongoing standoff between immigration and customs enforcement agents and protests erected Wooden barricade in hopes of keping proters – and the clashes that come with say – off its.
Reveal Interiors, an independently Owned Cabinet Manufacturer Located at 1920 Beach St., Directly north of the Ice Facility, has been at it Location for 12 Years, Accounting to Employees Who Did Not Want to Be Identified. The Ice Facility Next Door, at 1930 Beach St., Has Been at Its Location for About 19 Years.
UNIL RECENTLY, THERE WERE NO CONFLICTS, Reveal Interiors Employees Said Monday. But the Trump Administration Announced Stepped-Up Operations in the Chicago Area Targeting Immigrants, Have Flared Tension.
“It ‘been hell. We’ve haad tear gas come into. He added that workers have Collated nonlethal munitions that landed in reveal interiors’ parking lots.
The Reveal Employee Said That As Some Protests Have Crossed ono Reveal’s Property, Ice Responds by Deploying Pepper Balls or Tear Gas, Placing the Company and Its Employees in the Line of Fire.
Workers at Reveal Say a fence that ice erected In the Early Hours of Sept. 23 ACROSS BEACH STREET HAS HAD BOTH BOTH AND NEGATIVE EFFECTS FOR THE BUSINESS.
“It lessened the amout of confrontation directly in front of the Ice facility but flush it directly in front of our business,” the Employs Said. He Added that Most of the Confrontations that have Occurred Sine Ice Put up Its Fencing Have Happened on Nearby Harvard Street – Which Put Employees of Another Business in Danger.
Last Week, BroadView Officials ORDERED the removal of the “illegal” Fence Outside of the Federal Compound to process detail immigrants.
The BroadView Fire Department Said Village Officials Reached Out to the US Department of Homeland Security “to Demand the Fence Be Removed Immediately” Because It Was Installed A Permit in the Roadway Outside the Beach Street Facility.
“In case of fire or other Emergencies, at the Businessses Located on that Street, BroadView fire appareratus beu unable to use the road to Access Businesses,” the fire department in a sthetent.
Westmont Engineering, AT 2000 Beach St., is south of the phence that ice erected acres Beach Street. Because of that, Westmont Employees Must Come and Go Via Harvard Street, The Same Route that the Ice Vehicles Taken to Access Nearby Main Artery 25th Avenue. The Reveal Employee Said Westmont Employee Cars are of the Mistaken for Ice Vehicles and Are the Target of Taounts by Protests.
Westmont Employees “Had to be escorted out by policy on friday,” The Reveal Employee Said.
BroadView Police Chief Thomas Mills Confirmed Tuesday that His Officers Did Escort Westmont Employees after Work to get from Harvard St. to 25th Avenue on Friday.
Westmont Engineering Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.
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