A group of more than a dozen women from Chicago’s near west suburbs arrested after staging a sit-in protest in the driveway of ICE’s Broadview detention facility appeared for their scheduled court date last week, only to find they weren’t on the docket.
The group of “suburban moms,” several from Oak Park, were arrested after reportedly hopping barricades and sitting down in a circle in the middle of the Beach Street driveway leading into the federal facility on Friday, Nov. 7. The women were arrested by Cook County Sheriff’s deputies less than a minute later, processed, and released with notices to appear in court at the Maywood Courthouse Wednesday, Dec. 3.
When the women arrived at the courthouse last week for what they expected to be their first appearance, they learned they weren’t on the docket for an appearance, and that their cases were in limbo, according to Nikki Kidd of River Forest, one of the defendants in the case…