The Justice Department is suing Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, challenging state laws that restrict immigration arrests at courthouses, hospitals, daycare centers and public universities. ICE’s so-called Operation Midway Blitz has led to the arrest of more than 4,000 people in the Chicago area; data shows that only 15% had criminal offenses, which are mostly comprised of minor traffic offenses, misdemeanors or nonviolent felonies. Jillian Kaehler, a spokesperson for Pritzker, said, “The Trump administration’s masked agents are not targeting the 'worst of the worst' — they are harassing and detaining law-abiding U.S. citizens and Black and brown people.”










