GARY, Ind. — Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced recent results of “Operation Midway Blitz” while in Gary, Indiana on Thursday.

“Operation Midway Blitz” is an immigration enforcement initiative that started in early September in and around Chicago, Illinois. The U.S Department of Homeland Security said there has been an increase in masked, armed agents arresting illegal immigrants with criminal records.

According to Secretary Noem, 223 illegal aliens have been arrested in Indiana during the time of this operation with 146 of them being drivers of semi-trucks, box trucks, buses or moving vans. Noem said most of the CDL’s that were given to those individuals were issued from over a dozen different states and overwhelmingly from “sanctuary states” like California, Illinois

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