CHICAGO (AP) – Border Patrol agents who have broken norms leading to the crackdown on immigrants in Los Angeles said Tuesday that he could reach Chicago and show a potentially more aggressive stage Surge in enforcement It was announced last week in the third largest city in the country.
“Well, Chicago, we’ve arrived!” Gregory Bovino The X post includes footage of U.S. immigrants and customs forced vehicles and agents under street signs and downtown views. “Operations are here to continue the mission we started in Los Angeles.”
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem also stopped in Chicago and said that Homeland Security officials made multiple arrests Tuesday morning.
President Donald Trump has been pledging for weeks that Chicago is seeing a surge in immigration enforcement and National Guard troops over repeated objections. Local leader and residents. Immigration advocates and Illinois legislators rise As Trump is targeting, recent immigration enforcement agents A democratic hub.
But Trump has seasawed Send a military deployment to Chicago. After saying he’ll be focused In other citiesTrump said Tuesday again that Chicago will see the development soon.
The focus or size of the border patrol operations Bovino referenced in his message on Tuesday was not immediately clear. Authorities did not answer questions regarding the scope of immigration enforcement in Chicago. The spokesman for a military base outside Chicago also never agreed to provide it. Limited logistics support To a federal agent.
There has been an increase in recent enforcement New fear Among the immigrant communities in Chicago, it led to cancellations and delays of several celebrations on Mexico Independence Day, which was Tuesday. Tensions have been particularly high since ICE officers Deadly shot A man allegedly avoided arrest last week.
Illinois Democratic Government JB Pretzker, Those who opposed federal intervention, He criticizes Bovino’s tactics and calls them violent and discriminatory.
“They grab people who speak different languages, not people who have brown skin, people who speak accents, or people who are accused of committing or committing a crime,” he said Tuesday.
Frequently Trump critic, Pritzker, has accused federal agents of sending inflamed tensions and causing inflammation as justification to send the National Guard to the city.
In Los Angeles, thousands of people were arrested due to Bovino’s self-proclaimed “turn and burn” tactics. The agent broke the car window, opened the door to the house and patrols. MacArthur Park Riding a horse. Operations in California began without hints before it began on June 6th.
Noem said the DHS would not retreat.
“Our work is just beginning,” she said in X.
Prior to Bovino’s arrival, DHS provided little detail about its Chicago business except that it focuses on less than 20 arrests since ICE began enforcement operations earlier this month. Immigration activists said the number of arrests was much higher, with more than 15 people in one suburb alone on Monday. An iced official did not reply to a message Tuesday.
U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a Democrat on the Homeland Security Budget Committee, said late Monday that arrests began two days before the ICE program, which was promoted, as the “Operation Midway Blitz” was openly announced and detained 250 people in the Chicago area.
Underwood said she requested more information from ICE and received a briefing with details that included the program including the entire Lake County, Indiana, part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
“Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community. Like all Illinois, I have been worried and wary of reporting on ice behavior and operations in our state under Donald Trump,” Underwood said in a statement.
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San Diego Associated Press Writer Elliot Spagut contributed to this report.
