Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has urged ICE Barbie Kristi Noem to let kids enjoy the Halloween holiday and stop the clampdown on migrants.

He wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Noem “respectfully requesting” the suspension of citywide operations from Friday through Sunday, “so children can safely celebrate Halloween.”

Chicago has been a high priority battleground for federal immigration agents where a children’s parade was targeted and a judge has tightened oversight of Border Patrol officers.

“Please let children be children for one holiday, free from intimidation and fear,” the 60-year-old wrote to Noem, 53, in a letter obtained and reported by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Todd M. Lyons, and Rodney S. Scott, Comm

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