Operation Midway Blitz Gets Started in Chicago

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We've known for more than a week that a major ICE operation in Chicago was on Trump's agenda. As Ed pointed out here, President Trump upped the pressure on Gov. Pritzker this morning by pointing out it was another deadly weekend in Chicago. And a bit later we learned DHS was calling it Operation Midway Blitz. The effort is being dedicated to a young woman who was killed by an illegal alien drunk driver earlier this year.

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Gov. Pritzker was quick to complain:

Clearly the talking points have gone out.

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Since then we're starting to see our first video of arrests made as part of this operation. This guy sitting under a tree was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a child.

Another arrest, this one's from yesterday.

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The Washington Post reports that there were several arrests made yesterday.

Chicago city leaders and immigrant advocates said federal law enforcement officers began making arrests Sunday and had taken at least five people into custody, including a well-known flower vendor and people waiting at a bus stop and on the sidewalk. The activists said there had been “an escalation” in enforcement actions and several reported sightings of ICE vehicles.

“We believe this operation signals the beginning of ICE’s full escalation in Chicago and Illinois,” said Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Video of another arrest dated today but I'm not sure when or where this happened.

The efforts to prevent arrests are pretty well organized.

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There was a big anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest in Chicago on Saturday.

So we'll have to see if that kind of energy returns now that arrests are being made.

  • Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.


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