PARK RIDGE, Ill. — It was 3:30 a.m. when 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered in a parking lot in the Chicago suburbs for a briefing about a suspect they hoped 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.

Across the city and surrounding suburbs, other teams fanned out in support of " Operation Midway Blitz ." It unleashed President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda on a city and state that have some of the strongest laws preventing local officials from cooperating with immigration enforcement.

ICE launched the

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