Just days after President Donald Trump posted on social media about planned "Department of War" efforts in Chicago, U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have announced new operations in the city.
The Department of Homeland Security posted on X Monday morning, saying it was launching what it called "Operation Midway Blitz" to "target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois."
The operation references the death of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old Glenview woman who was killed in January in Urbana, Illinois, along with a friend by a suspected drunk driver who was believed to be an illegal immigrant and fled the scene of the crash. A Guatemalan national was later arrested by Urbana police and charged in connection with the crash