India, Sept. 19 -- Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was violently thrown to the ground by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a protest near Chicago on Friday, according to videos circulating widely on social media.

Abughazaleh, who is running for Congress in Illinois's 9th District in 2026, responded to the incident on X (formerly Twitter), writing, "This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights."

"What ICE just did to me was a violent abuse of power - and it's still nothing compared to what they're doing to immigrant communities," she added. "I've been fighting the right as a journalist and now I'm running for Congress to do the same in DC."

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