After days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials. Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be “accountable for its actions” amid the administration’s “cruel immigration crackdown”. For the preceding few days, federal officials have arrested protesters at the Broadview facility as Ice operations have escalated in Illinois. In response, the Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, decried the force used by federal officials at the site. The Trump administration has made immigration enforcement arrests a top priority since it returned to office in January after Joe Biden’s presidency.