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DHS Is Doing Some Major Damage in Chicago
Townhall.com ^ | October 03, 2025 2:00 PM | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 10/04/2025 1:27:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

While President Donald Trump has stopped short of sending National Guard troops into Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security is doing some major damage against illegal aliens being harbored in the area. 

DHS law enforcement has made OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz in Illinois.

To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9PxbuK5Ua

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 2, 2025

The work has been dangerous for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have been under siege by local activists and criminal aliens. 

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were targets of two separate vehicular assaults in the Chicago metro area. In Bensenville, Illinois and again in Norridge, IL criminal illegal aliens weaponized their vehicles in deliberate attempts to ram and injure officers carrying out their sworn duty to uphold our nation’s immigration laws," DHS released in a recent statement. 

"In the first assault in Norridge, IL, Miguel Escareno De Loera, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, rammed his vehicle into an ICE law enforcement vehicle twice. He then jumped a curb and crashed his car into a stop sign—ending his violent assault," the statement details. "Escareno De Loera entered the United States at an unknown date and unknown location, without inspection by an immigration official. In the second instance, Widman Osberto Lopez-Funes, a criminal illegal alien from Guatemala, rammed his vehicle into ICE agents during a targeted enforcement operation, and then exited the vehicle and fled into his residence in Bensenville, IL. This criminal illegal alien was later arrested on scene without incident."

Operation Midway Blitz started in mid-September and is still opposed by Democrat Governor JB Pritztker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. According to Trump, a National Guard troop deployment is still on the table as attacks...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; dhs; harboring; ohnoanyway; sanctuarycity
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1 posted on 10/04/2025 1:27:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What’s the weekend body count up to so far? I know the weekend just started but there’s usually some early risers.


2 posted on 10/04/2025 1:30:32 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bad headline. Better one: DHS making progress in Chicago.
3 posted on 10/04/2025 1:41:10 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://x.com/BrandieWithABee/status/1974472598701682832

More progress.


4 posted on 10/04/2025 1:41:48 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; SaveFerris; Larry Lucido

5 posted on 10/04/2025 1:43:05 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'd love to see Kristi gun down a few.

6 posted on 10/04/2025 1:44:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Texas Eagle
weekend body count.... early risers!!

Early to bed
Early to rise
Makes a Chicago Hoodlum
None the wiser.

Come to think of it, as the Federal authorities clear Chicago of the worst criminal illegal trespassers, the homegrown gangs and thugs should be thanking the Feds. Their territories and profits will increase. If they just lay low enough for a while, they will prosper in the long run.

And the kickbacks to all of the politicians could increase as well.

7 posted on 10/04/2025 1:51:43 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Drop in the bucket.


8 posted on 10/04/2025 1:53:18 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Drop in the bucket.

Every deluge starts with drops.

What would you have them do differently?

9 posted on 10/04/2025 2:00:27 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: gundog

Yes, yes ... but was it with a swirl or a knuckle?


10 posted on 10/04/2025 2:01:07 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: central_va

Why you not in Chicago helping DHS instead of playing keyboard jockey? Your talk is cheap, without any action.


11 posted on 10/04/2025 2:01:16 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship! .... Bhagavad Geeta. )
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To: Lizavetta

Ignore him. He is all talk, no action.


12 posted on 10/04/2025 2:02:25 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship! .... Bhagavad Geeta. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

[To every criminal illegal alien: Darkness is no longer your ally. We will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9PxbuK5Ua

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) October 2, 2025]

WOW


13 posted on 10/04/2025 2:05:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DemocRAT voter count being reduced every day.


14 posted on 10/04/2025 2:14:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have been under siege by local activists

Arrest and prosecute them too. They're committing criminal acts.

Round up and arrest the top city officials for harboring these fugitives. Give them the max penalty, and charge them for 1000's of individual counts.

15 posted on 10/04/2025 2:21:56 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
the homegrown gangs and thugs should be thanking the Feds. Their territories and profits will increase.

They should be declared domestic terrorists and rounded up as well.

...the kickbacks to all of the politicians could increase as well

They are in serial violation of immigration statutes and should be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned.

16 posted on 10/04/2025 2:27:44 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The work has been dangerous for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who have been under siege by local activists and criminal aliens. "

DHS needs to supply the necessary firepower to immediately terminate the siege by local activists and criminal aliens.

17 posted on 10/04/2025 2:31:19 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ill. Gov JB Pritzker and his puppet Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson seem to be more interested in keeping the crime rate in Chicago super high rather that admit they are failures at governing. Of course it appears to be voter stupidity that keeps electing and re-electing loser Democrats for governor and mayor that promise the world and deliver nothing except more crime.


18 posted on 10/04/2025 2:40:11 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Lizavetta

Use bonuses for ICE. Every deportee they collar is 1000 bonus.


19 posted on 10/04/2025 2:43:42 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s not call it damage… The damage was done when these people were allowed into this country with no identification, no vetting and quickly disappeared into the shadows except for when they needed to show up at a benefits office to sign up for what they “were entitled to” as illegals

I prefer to call this cleaning up the damage


20 posted on 10/04/2025 2:46:14 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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