Border Patrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers patrolled downtown Chicago in an immigration crackdown operation, resulting in arrests.
The Border Patrol agents were armed, masked, and camouflaged, while ICE said that it had hundreds of officers downtown as part of its “Midway Blitz” operation in Chicago, which began on Sept. 8, NewsNation reported.
Multiple arrests were made downtown, including in the River North neighborhood on Sunday morning, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.