"The Department of Homeland Security announced it's launching an immigration enforcement operation in Illinois in the latest escalation of federal action on U.S. cities and states led by Democrats. The agency said in a post on X that the U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement's "Operation Midway Blitz" is in honor of Katie Abraham, a 20-year-old woman it says was killed in January in a drunk-driving hit-and-run accident involving a man who is an undocumented immigrant in Illinois. Officials identified him as Julio Cucul-Bol."
"DHS says the ICE operation targets "criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois" because they knew Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's sanctuary policies would protect them. This latest announcement about Illinois follows a summer in which the Trump administration has targeted Democratic-led cities for increased immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments. It also follows an earlier announcement from DHS that said it was launching a new immigration enforcement effort in Massachusetts, according to reporting from NPR member station WBUR in Boston."
"Meanwhile, National Guard troops some of them armed are still patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., ostensibly to address the administration's concerns about crime. This is despite the fact that the city is experiencing a 30-year low in crime, according to the U.S. Justice Department from earlier this year. And earlier Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with President Trump, allowing immigration raids in Los Angeles to continue."
The Department of Homeland Security has launched "Operation Midway Blitz" in Illinois, naming the effort after a 20-year-old woman reportedly killed in a hit-and-run involving an undocumented immigrant. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says the operation targets "criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois" who allegedly benefited from sanctuary policies under Governor JB Pritzker. The move follows other federal enforcement actions in Democratic-led jurisdictions, including Massachusetts and Los Angeles, and deployments of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. NPR has not confirmed the specific incident details cited by officials.
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