Illinois Democrat Running for Congress Indicted Over Chicago Anti-ICE Protest

Kat Abughazaleh and five other protesters are accused of ‘hindering and impeding’ an ICE officer by blocking an agency vehicle.

Police clash with demonstrators in the street outside of the “Free Speech Zone” near the immigrant processing and detention center in Broadview, Ill., on Oct. 17, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A federal grand jury has indicted Kat Abughazaleh, a Democrat running to represent Illinois’s Ninth Congressional District, over a confrontation in late September outside the Chicago Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) command center.

The indictment, filed on Oct. 23 and unsealed on Oct. 29, accuses Abughazaleh and five other protesters of “hindering and impeding” an ICE officer by blocking an agency vehicle during a protest “on or about September 26” in Broadview, a western suburb of Chicago.