CHICAGO — On Monday, The Department of Homeland Security announced its launching an immigration crackdown in Chicago called “Operation: Midway Blitz.”
According to the post on X, the Immigration and Custom Enforcement operation will “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city has not received any formal notice of increased immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration.
In a statement he said, “We are concerned about potential militarized immigration enforcement without due process because of ICE’s track record of detaining and deporting American citizens and violating the human rights of hundreds of detainees. ICE sent a 4-year-old boy with stage 4 kidney cancer to Honduras, even though the child was an A