SPRINGFIELD — The federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign in the Chicago region is now moving at a pace and scale that is “wider and more intense” than in previous weeks, Gov. JB Pritzker warned Thursday.

Pritzker painted a picture of Chicago-area neighborhoods being invaded by masked agents in unmarked vehicles who harass people based on their skin tone and liberally spray tear gas and other chemical agents when confronted with pushback on their aggressive methods. He also poked holes in federal officials’ insistence that enforcement operations are targeting the “worst of the worst.”

“It's important that all Illinois, in fact, all patriotic Americans, recognize what is happening here in our state because we cannot let this become normalized,” Pritzker told repor

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