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It’s now nearly impossible to get asylum in Chicago immigration court (opens the original)
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The Venezuelan man believed his case for asylum checked all the boxes to let him stay in the United States. He had proof of how badly local police hurt him when they kidnapped and sodomized him, the nadir of months of harassment. As a gay man, he’s considered part of a protected class. And after he reported the assaults, the officers swore revenge. “They will kill me, these police officers,” he testified in Spanish in August. “They’ll know when I am there” in Venezuela. “I don’t want to return.”
It’s now nearly impossible to get asylum in Chicago immigration court (opens the original)
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The Venezuelan man believed his case for asylum checked all the boxes to let him stay in the United States. He had proof of how badly local police hurt him when they kidnapped and sodomized him, the nadir of months of harassment. As a gay man, he’s considered part of a protected class. And after he reported the assaults, the officers swore revenge. “They will kill me, these police officers,” he testified in Spanish in August. “They’ll know when I am there” in Venezuela. “I don’t want to return.”
Operation Midway Blitz by the numbers 68 days, 4,000 detained, 2,700 deported | Chicago Sun-Times (opens the original)
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Chicago, long home to immigrants, had never seen federal enforcement like this before. Hundreds of immigration officers streamed into Chicago starting one year ago. They came from across the country, dispatched to execute “Operation Midway Blitz.” President Donald Trump had been warning of accelerating his mass deportation campaign in Chicago, targeting cities and states with sanctuary policies protecting immigrants. The surge lasted from Sept. 8 to Nov. 14, 2025. This is a snapshot of what happ
Did Trump detain the ‘worst of the worst’ in Chicago last fall? (opens the original)
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The immigration agents’ mission was absolutely clear: Ferret out the “worst of the worst” criminals living in the United States without legal status. This was the mantra federal officials repeated throughout the 68 most intense days of “Operation Midway Blitz,” which began nearly one year ago on Sept. 8. Hundreds of armed, masked agents from all over the country hit the streets in and around Chicago, detaining thousands as cameras rolled. Yet, an analysis of data from U.S. Immigration and Custom
Did Trump detain the ‘worst of the worst'’ in Chicago last fall? (opens the original)
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The immigration agents’ mission was absolutely clear: Ferret out the “worst of the worst” criminals living in the United States without legal status. This was the mantra federal officials repeated throughout the 68 most intense days of “Operation Midway Blitz,” which began nearly one year ago, on Sept. 8. Hundreds of armed, masked agents from all over the country hit the streets in and around Chicago, detaining thousands as cameras rolled. This criminal alien's rap sheet is longer than a CVS rec
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