{"id":370716,"date":"2025-11-11T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/370716\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:08:11","slug":"trumps-operation-midway-blitz-in-chicago-nears-end-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/370716\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018Operation Midway Blitz\u2019 in Chicago nears end, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cOperation Midway Blitz<\/a>\u201d may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.<\/p>\n

Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the top official on the ground leading the Trump administration\u2019s efforts, was expected to depart Chicago for another assignment within days, and most of the Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.<\/p>\n

An on-call task force composed of FBI and assistant U.S. attorneys is also expected to close up shop in the coming days, the sources said.<\/p>\n

In a statement Monday, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which is overseeing the operation, said \u201cevery day DHS enforces the laws of this country, including in Chicago. We do not comment or telegraph future operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency recently said that agents had surpassed 3,000 total immigration arrests since the surge began in early September.<\/p>\n

Controversy surrounding the operation, meanwhile, has continued unabated.<\/p>\n

Gov. JB Pritzker on social media<\/a> blasted Border Patrol after dozens of agents posed for a picture in front of the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park Monday. Block Club Chicago reported<\/a> that an agent shouted, \u201cEveryone say, \u2018Little Village!\u2019\u201d as an embedded photographer took the picture of the agents, many of whom were masked, and as snow covered the top of the Bean.<\/p>\n

The comments come days after Bovino and scores of federal agents this weekend engaged<\/a> in a series of arrests and detainments in the Little Village neighborhood and DHS officials said someone fired at agents. Many community members later in the day confronted the agents, touching off a chaotic series of confrontations. Bovino and federal officials were seen circling the neighborhood and deploying chemical crowd-control measures at several locations.<\/p>\n

Local politicians later called the sweeps \u201ca reign of terror<\/a>\u201d and declared that the agents who carried it out were \u201ca new American Gestapo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pritzker posted that \u201cmaking fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer,\u201d he wrote. \u201c\u2026they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Bovino \u2014 whom a federal judge declared had lied<\/a> repeatedly in a deposition late last month<\/a> \u2014 said Pritzker was \u201clying\u201d and added, \u201cfeel free to join us in Little Village tomorrow.\u201d Later,\u00a0Bovino invited the governor to \u201cjoin us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Sept. 8, DHS officials have reported thousands of arrests of unauthorized immigrants in and around Chicago as agents have filled multiple residential blocks with tear gas<\/a> and other chemical munitions as neighbors push back on their action<\/a>s, shot U.S. citizens<\/a> whom they claim \u201crammed\u201d their vehicles, killed an undocumented man<\/a> whom they alleged was trying to evade arrest and left swathes of the city and suburbs blanketed in fear<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cOperation Midway Blitz\u201d may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":370717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[20174,69509,140728,960,69,5410,106786,5386,1818,409,19409,12084,7090,112100,121074,7093],"class_list":{"0":"post-370716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-brandon-johnson","9":"tag-broadview","10":"tag-broadview-ice","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-ice","14":"tag-ice-in-chicago","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-illinois","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-immigration-raids","19":"tag-jb-pritzker","20":"tag-national-guard","21":"tag-national-guard-in-chicago","22":"tag-operation-midway-blitz","23":"tag-raids"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115529102378159734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}