Evanston, Illinois —

They’ve been showing up all over Evanston, a leafy suburb north of Chicago: suburban moms fresh from the school run and out to protect their community from what they see as unwelcome visitors.

The strangers are federal officers, sent by the Department of Homeland Security in “Operation Midway Blitz” which was aimed at targeting “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago,” according to Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

But that doesn’t ring true for many in the city that’s home to Northwestern University and where 70% of its 80,000 or so residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher, and where in August this year, a police newsletter said there had not been a single reported burglary that week.

Cellphone videos posted to social media show what

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