Days after announcing a long-promised immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, President Donald Trump’s administration highlighted “the worst of the worst offenders” who had been arrested.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson and other politicians had harbored the 13 men swept up in “Operation Midway Blitz.”

“These criminal illegal aliens flocked to Illinois because sanctuary policies allow them to roam free and terrorize innocent Americans without consequence,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement Wednesday.

But at least two of the men, and apparently a third, were arrested outside of Illinois, according to interviews and court records examined by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Spokespeople for DHS and U.S. Immigr

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