CHICAGO – Donald Trump has launched a migrant crackdown in Chicago, triggering claims that the city is descending into a ‘war zone’ with ICE guards dragging people off the streets and vigilante groups fighting back.
Operation Midway Blitz aims to rid the city, as well as the entire state of Illinois and parts of neighbouring Indiana, of ‘the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago’.
In a press conference this week, Trump hailed the effectiveness of his crackdown describing Chicago as ‘the most dangerous city in the world’, adding: ‘I have an obligation. This isn’t a political thing.
‘‘I have an obligation when 20 people are killed over the last two and a half weeks and 75 are shot with bullets.’’
The city is notorious for its gun crime and its poor suburbs have long been regarded as the most dangerous urban area in the United States.
According to data published by the Chicago Police Department, violent crimes including murder and criminal sexual assault committed between October 6 and October 12 have fallen by 32 per cent compared to the same dates in 2024.
The same period has also seen a massive 58 per cent reduction in shootings compared to last year.
As the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency rounds up increasing numbers of illegal immigrants for deportation, they are being confronted by a growing army of liberal vigilantes.
As the pro-immigration vigilantes try to halt deportations, they accuse ICE agents of brutality, using smoke grenades, tear gas and pepper balls to turn the city into what they describe as a ‘war zone’.
ICE’s agents have also been accused of wrongfully targeting American citizens, including a TV producer who was ‘violently assaulted’ by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and had her backside exposed in the scuffle.
In one clip, a masked ICE officer slammed a black teenager into the ground for running despite his relative telling them he is an American citizen.
Video footage taken from near a Chicago Walgreens showed the immigration officer throwing the young man to the ground on October 14.
The woman filming, claiming to be his sister in law, shouts at the officer: ‘He’s a citizen!’
The officer asks the teenager: ‘Why are you running?’
The young man, identified by local media as 19-year-old Warren King, said he began leaving the store on the city’s East 106th Street after the officer inside called for backup.
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