
Chicago-Oklepian administrative officials of Trump, including “Border Wast” Tom Homan and the duties of the Deputy Prosecutor General, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of madness Enforcement of immigration law in the third largest city of the country When federal agencies advertised arrests throughout the country.
Few details of the operation were immediately made public, including the number of arrests. But the very number of federal agencies involved showed President Donald Trump readiness apply federal law enforcement agencies outside the Internal Security Department to carry it out for a long time Mass deportations.
The duties of the deputy general prosecutor Emil Bove said that he was observing immigration with DHS together with FBI agents, drug enforcement administration and an alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives office. He did not provide detailed information about the operation, which took place a few days after DHS extended the immigration body to agencies in the Department of Justice, including DEA and ATF.
“We will support everyone at the federal, state and local level, who join this critical mission to regain our communities,” Bove said in a statement. “We will use all available tools to solve obstacles and other illegal obstacles in our efforts to protect our homeland. Most importantly, we will not rest until the work is done. “
“Dr. Phil “McGrawA television psychologist during the day, interviewed Homan, and live broadcasts in Chicago Raids in his multi -platform television network Merit TV, and several other reporters were also invited to the Sunday operation. Associated Press plans to observe operations this week.
The DEA office in Chicago has published photos on X showing Bove and Homan with ATF agents and customs and borders protection.
Since the time he took the office, similar immigration Enforcement operations They have been publicized throughout the country, which, according to the enforcement of immigration in the USA, are underway. Posts in social media from other DEA offices recorded additional weekend operations in at least California, Georgia and Colorado.
Raid is directed to members of the Venezuelan Gang in Colorado
Dea published photos on Sunday in social media of the raid in a place in the Denver area, where about 50 people were arrested.
Jonathan Pullen, a special agent responsible for Dea Rocky Mountain Field Division, said that the operation in Colorado has directed drug trafficking through Aragua train, Venezuelan gang. He said that about 100 agents and officers, including DEA, ICE, ATF and investigations on internal security, conducted a federal order to search for drug trafficking around 5 am on Sunday in the place where TREM de Aragua members organized the party.
Pullen said that ICE stopped almost 50 people and transported them by bus to one of his processing centers in nearby Aurora. He said that from Sunday afternoon about 40 people remained in ice cream.
“They ran all the information when they were in place and determined, Ice decided that they were illegally or had a different violation in the immigration system, and they detained and arrested them,” said Pullen.
Pullen added that the “handful” of US citizens was also on the site.
Pullen said that agents took drugs, including cocaine, many pistols and cash, adding that the investigation began under the Biden administration and continues in the Trump in a row. He said that Dea and Ice have been cooperating for decades and there was nothing modern in the coordination of two agencies.
Trump executive order It tracks the way for criminal organizations such as Aragua train Be called “foreign terrorist organizations”. Armed members of the Venezuelan gang were caught on a video entering the Auror Apartment convoluted last summer in materials This drew Trump’s attention during the presidential campaign.
The inhabitants of Chicago were on the edge before the Sunday operation
ICE spokesman Jeff Carter said that the agency “began to conduct improved targeted operations” on Sunday in Chicago, but rejected other details. FBI, ATF and DEA spokesmen confirmed their commitment, but did not provide other information.
The inhabitants of Chicago, especially in the circles of immigrants, They were already on the edge For months, waiting for gigantic -scale arrests advertised by the Trump administration. The atmosphere has been particularly tense over the past week as the best Trump officials I swear start immigration enforcement operations in Chicago the day after Trump inauguration Before returning these statements.
Last week, Bove gave a note ordering the federal prosecutors to examine state or local officials who, in their opinion, disturb the repression of Trump’s administration on immigration, in an apparent warning for tens So -called jurisdictions of the sanctuary In all of America.
Chicago Bars City Police Cooperation with immigration agents
Chicago has one of the strongest protection of the sanctuary, which cooperation between the city police and immigration agents.
Groups of immigrants have I tried to prepare for aggressive repression with immigrant campaigns to learn their rights in the event of arrest. City officials did the same by publishing similar information at public bus and train stations.
Chicago Public Schools officials on Friday He believed incorrectly Ice agents came to the basic city and issued the effect of a statement before learning that agents came from Secret Service. The word of immigration agents at school – which have not been in the immigration agents for a long time Trump ended his policy Last week – Drew Swift Criticism of social groups and Governor JB Pritzker.
The Democratic Governor, a regular Trump critic, questioned the aggressive approach of surgery and a frosty effect for others, especially for those who follow the law of immigrants who have been working in this country for years.
“We must get rid of brutal criminals. But we also have to protect people, at least the inhabitants of Illinois and in the whole country, who simply do what we hope that immigrants will do it, “said Pritzker on Sunday about” Union “CNN.
Groups of immigrants are looking for an order to stop some types of raids
On Saturday, several groups of immigrants from Chicago filed a lawsuit against ICE, looking for an order prohibiting some types of immigration raids in Chicago.
“The immigrant community, which they have called Chicago home for decades,” said Antonio Gutierrez from organized communities against deportations, one of the reasons. “We do not want to live in fear and we will fight all attempts to withdraw the work that we did to keep families together.”