It was 3:30 a.m. when 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered in a parking lot for a briefing about a suspect they were hoping to arrest.

They went over a description of the person, made sure their radios were on the same channel and discussed where the closest hospital was in case something went wrong.

“Let’s plan on not being there,” said one of the officers, before they climbed into their vehicles and headed out into the Chicago suburbs.

Across the city and surrounding suburbs, other teams were fanning out in support of “ Operation Midway Blitz ,” which has unleashed President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda on a city and state that has had some of the strongest laws preventing local officials from cooperating with immigration enforcement.

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