DHS announces "Operation Midway Blitz" in Chicago; Trump federalizing Illinois National Guard
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago area is seeing an increase in federal immigration enforcement.
President Donald Trump says the surge in immigration enforcement activity in the Chicago area is about getting dangerous criminals off the streets.
Some 300 federal agents are using North Chicago's Naval Station Great Lakes as the logistical hub for ramped-up operations.
Protesters and federal agents have continued to clash outside an ICE Processing Center in Broadview, Illinois.
ABC7 is tracking the latest news in the city and suburbs. Here are the latest developments.
Members of the Texas National Guard are at an Army Reserve Training Center in the far southwest suburbs, sources say.
Sources confirmed the Guard's arrival, and ABC7 Chicago got video confirmation on-site at the Elwood U.S. Army Reserve Center.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a news release Monday that no children were zip-tied in a South Shore immigration raid last week.
Federal immigration agents arrested nearly 40 people last week at an apartment building on South Shore Drive and 75th Street.
People who live there say agents broke down doors and windows and used flash bangs to wake people up.
DHS claims Tren de Aragua gang members were among those arrested.
The Department of Homeland Security said Monday night that 67 people have been arrested over the last month during anti-immigration protests in the Chicago area.
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin said some of those arrested were aggressive toward law enforcement.
The mayor of Waukegan stepped in while federal agents detained a woman outside City Hall on Monday afternoon.
Video shows Mayor Sam Cunningham talking to federal agents.
Cunningham told ABC7 he saw the woman being cuffed, and then, she started calling his name.
Cunningham helped get her car towed while she was being detained.
ABC7 spoke with the woman's father. He says she is an American citizen and that she was charged with obstructing a federal investigation.
Federal authorities have not confirmed that.
