A day after President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security launched “Operation Midway Blitz,” its latest immigration crackdown , area politicians and immigrant rights groups said it was relatively subdued on the ground Tuesday with minimal arrests.
But they’re preparing for more.
Speaking before more than a dozen cameras on a quiet street in Pilsen, Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday said the federal immigration enforcement agency has plans to send in more than 200 agents and 100 vehicles in its Chicago immigration “blitz.”
“Here’s what we do know. (The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is somewhere on the ground here,” Pritzker said, standing in front of the National Museum of Mexican Art. “They already have been effectuating their plans.”
“We have not seen the bulk of th