Trump administration launches ICE crackdown in Chicago

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After weeks of vowing to deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, the Trump administration said on Monday (September 8) it had launched a deportation crackdown in Illinois. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Marcos Charles told Reuters that 'Operation Midway Blitz' has so far been successful. - REUTERS

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00:00We're here out in beautiful Chicago to come out here and do an operational surge

00:08in which we're calling it Operation Midway Blitz. We're always here and we

00:14operate in here in Chicagoland area. We have our offices here and in the state

00:19of Illinois and in other states surrounding Illinois. So far it's been

00:24successful. We have successfully arrested some criminal aliens over the last few

00:28days. We just began our surge. We're going to be bringing in our our partners, our

00:33other DHS partners, DOJ partners, CBP partners coming in. So they'll be coming

00:39in and participating in this isolate operation. Just know that we are going to

00:44be here in town and we're going to be enforcing the law.

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