Remember last week, when information leaked ahead of the incoming Trump administration’s planned immigration raids in Chicago on Day Two (Tuesday)?
As I previously wrote, President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, wasn’t having it, telling a legacy media member that it wouldn’t slow down operations already in motion in sanctuary cities across the country.
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Well, there’s some bad news for those in blue states and cities who were patting themselves on the back for thwarting the return of law and order via Trump 47; they are quickly learning that the Trump administration does what it promises to do, as the operations got underway in the Windy City on Sunday:
The Justice Department announced Sunday it had begun a multiagency immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, as the Trump administration sought to show it is quickly fulfilling a campaign promise to ramp up arrests and deportations.
Officials said a host of law enforcement agencies would conduct such operations in the coming days. The Justice Department announced that its acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, had traveled to Chicago to oversee the effort to address what he called a “national emergency.”
And the forces pitching in–both in Chicago and nation wide–aren’t limited to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the DEA, FBI, BATF, and the U.S. Marshals all taking part.
In a statement, ICE weighed in with more information on the “enhanced targeted operations”:
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that federal agencies have started “enhanced targeted operations” in Chicago “to enforce U.S. immigration law and preserve public safety and national security by keeping potentially dangerous criminal aliens out of our communities.”
In their story linked above, the NYT quoted several Illinois politicians and leaders, one of whom appeared on a Sunday show to virtue-signal resistance to Pres. Trump’s stated policy:
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that his state would cooperate with federal authorities in deporting undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes or with pending deportation orders. But he emphasized that state law enforcement would not take part in targeted raids or profile people in the state who might be without documents.
The report added that the governor’s office confirmed they “[were] not given advance notice of the arrests.”
The Chicago Police Department, through a spokesman, doubled down on its refusing to work with ICE:
A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department on Sunday reiterated that the department, in accordance with municipal code, does not document immigration status or share information with federal immigration authorities.
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Check out the level of crying happening in Chicago at this hour:
The scale of arrests in Chicago and elsewhere was unclear on Sunday. Local officials in Chicago said they had not been involved in the operations.
I can’t resist ending with this, also from Sunday, with Homan’s most recent, powerful interview with the legacy media. On ABC News’ “This Week,” host Martha Raddatz attempted to shame him over Trump’s Day One executive order reauthorizing ICE to seek out illegals in or near “schools, hospitals, churches.”
Watch (start the clip below at around 1:51):
He didn’t even flinch, shooting back a question at Raddatz, before answering it:
How many MS-13 members are the age 14 to 17? Many of them.
Bingo. And the answer to all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Left is pretty simple: When you show you cannot be trusted with operational details about federal actions just to spite Donald Trump and without a care about the sovereignty of the U.S., what exactly did you expect to happen?
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