A federal judge is scheduled to decide whether federal agencies illegally arrested and detained dozens of individuals during the Trump administration’s recent efforts to curtail illegal immigration in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported Saturday.
In September, the Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Midway Blitz, which aimed to “target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor [JB] Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.” DHS announced this week that since the operation began nearly a month ago federal agents “have arrested more than 1,000 illegal aliens – including the worst of the worst pedophiles, child abusers, kidnappers, gang members, and armed robbers.”
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) in Chicago alleges that some of the arrests violate a 2022 consent decree, which bars U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting warrantless immigration arrests unless agents have probable cause that a person is in the country unlawfully and poses a flight risk.
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