The Department of Homeland Security announced it’s launching an immigration enforcement operation in Illinois in the latest escalation of federal action on U.S. cities and states led by Democrats.

The agency said in a post on X that the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s “Operation Midway Blitz” is in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman it says was killed in January in a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident involving a man who is an undocumented immigrant in Illinois.

Trump walks back Chicago ‘war’ threat, but vows to ‘clean up’ cities

Trump posted online that Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” but later said his administration wouldn’t go to war with American cities but rather “clean them up.”

Officials identified him as Julio Cucul-

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