A federal judge on Thursday officially dismissed the main conspiracy charge against the remaining “Broadview Six” immigration protesters indicted last fall.
A scheduled May 26 trial on the remaining misdemeanor counts is still moving forward, but U.S. District Judge April Perry noted the gravity of the moment in a brief hearing when she said the group was no longer charged with felonies.
The group was indicted in October in connection with a September 2025 demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the near-west Chicago suburb of Broadview.
The protest came at the height of demonstrations outside the Broadview facility just a few weeks into the Trump administration’s Chicago-focused “Operation Midway Blitz” mass deportation campaign.