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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Top Trump medication officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan, visited Chicago connected Sunday to oversee ramped-up immigration enforcement efforts arsenic national agencies touted arrests nationwide.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents made 956 arrests nationwide connected Sunday and 286 connected Saturday.
While successful Chicago, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove said helium observed migration agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), on with agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). He did not connection details connected the operation, which came days aft the DHS expanded migration authorization to agencies successful the Department of Justice, including the DEA and ATF.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is disappointed successful the results of his wide deportation efforts truthful far, the Washington Post reports, urging ICE to summation regular arrests to astatine slightest 1,200 to 1,500. ICE has averaged 433 regular arrests since Trump's inauguration, astir doubling connected Sunday.
Dozens of alleged Tren de Aragua members arrested in Denver
These targeted enforcements are happening nationwide, including successful New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.
In Denver, instrumentality enforcement officials conducted an aboriginal greeting cognition astatine a makeshift nightclub, seizing drugs, weapons and cash. Approximately 50 radical who were reportedly successful the U.S. illegally were taken into custody — galore allegedly connected with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
"I privation a safer community. I unrecorded successful this assemblage too, and I consciousness similar the radical successful the Denver metro country tin aftermath up contiguous and consciousness similar they person a safer metropolis to unrecorded in," said DEA Special Agent successful Charge Jonathan Pullen.
ICE arrested 5 alleged Tren de Aragua members successful Chicago connected Sunday.
Illinois' Pritzker backs 'law-abiding' undocumented migrants
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson launched a "Know Your Rights" advertisement campaign crossed the city's nationalist transit trains, arsenic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker called connected Trump to halt going aft what helium called "law-abiding" undocumented migrants.
"Violent criminals who are undocumented successful this state should beryllium deported," Pritzker said. "But erstwhile we're talking astir undocumented radical who person been surviving law-abiding lives and raising families successful the United States, we request broad migration reform. We request to springiness them an accidental to enactment successful this state legally."
The "Illinois Trust Act" limits section engagement with national migration enforcement, meaning Chicago Police officers are blocked from cooperating with ICE agents.
Homan argues ICE wouldn't request to behaviour specified assemblage arrests if section instrumentality enforcement were allowed to collaborate much intimately with ICE to people high-priority criminals.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
