Broadview, the 2.2 square-mile, majority-Black village, where Katrina Thompson is in her third term as mayor, has become the locus of what she sees as both a spiritual fight and a political battle.

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, as protests continue outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview.

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

Broadview Mayor Karen Katrina Thompson issued a letter to the Broadview community on saying the presence of the "heavily armed" National Guard members would turn the ICE facility "into a military fortress, within shooting distance of Broadview residents' homes and businesses."

At least four demonstrators were arrested during a protest at the Broadview facility Friday, a day after a fence was ordered removed and two other key rulings. U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth said they wanted to conduct oversight of the facility.

The Trump administration is asking an appeals court for an immediate stay of a judge's ruling this week that blocked the National Guard from deploying in Illinois.This request comes nearly 24 hours after a federal judge ruled the metal fence outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility must come down by early next week.

National Guard members were spotted early Thursday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Broadview, hours before a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the troops in Illinois.