“Operation Midway Blitz”: Grand -Migrants announced in Chicago

The US government has announced a large -scale deployment of the ICE immigration authority in the metropolis of Chicago – against the resistance of the city administration and the governor of Illinois. According to the Ministry of Homeland Security, the “Operation Midway Blitz” should be directed against “criminal illegal foreigners”.

“If you illegally come to our country and our laws brecht, we will hunt, arrest, deport, deport you and you will never return,” it said. The announcement of the start of the operation emotionally invited the Ministry of Homeland Security on social media: The authority has the commitment to the death of a young woman who died in a traffic accident in January. The Ministry of Homeland Security blames a drunk immigrant.

Details about how the use should look exactly were not mentioned. It was also unclear whether the operation is already running. US media reported several “apparently random” arrests at bus stops and on the street since Sunday. A flower seller known in the city was also taken into custody.

Democrats react indignantly

The US government intervenes with the step in Washington and Los Angeles in democratically ruled cities. Chicago’s mayor Brandon Johnson wrote on X that the city administration had not been informed by the US government about increased measures related to migration. The city continues to reject a militarized procedure without proper procedure. In the past, ICE officials had arrested US citizens, deported them and violated their human rights. The immigration authority is known for raids with partly hooded officials.

Illinois’ democratic governor JB Pritzker reacted outraged and made US President Donald Trump serious allegations. His government is not concerned with fighting crime, he wrote to X. “Instead of taking measures to work with us in public security, the Trump government has focused on unsettling the residents of Illinois.”

Supreme Court allows suspicion -independent controls

The announcement of the mission coincided with a decision by the Supreme US court, which initially allowed the authorities suspicion-independent controls of migrants in the Los Angeles area. In July, a court had banned civil servants in Los Angeles to stop people indiscriminately because of their appearance or language and without having sufficient suspicion. In these cases, critics speak of “racial profiling”. On Monday, the Supreme Court raised this restriction until there is a decision in terms of content. At first there was no reason for the Supreme Courts.

The decision was initially only true for the Los Angeles area. However, critics feared a dangerous precedent. There was also sharp criticism among the judges in the Supreme Court. “We shouldn’t have to live in a country in which the government can arrest anyone who looks Latin American, speaks Spanish and apparently works in a job with low wages,” wrote the judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Government already incorporated into other cities

Chicago is the third city in which the president intervenes. He called the capital Washington as a “rat hole” to describe the situation and sent the national guard on its streets weeks ago. In June, people in Los Angeles had taken to the streets against migrants against raids from the immigration authority – the government wanted to stop this.

The sending of heavily armed soldiers of the regular US military in Germany was seen by observers as a breach of taboo. In the United States, the governors of a state usually have control over the national guard. If there is a war or national emergencies, the US President can take command.

Trump’s war symbolism causes a sensation

Trump has also indicated a possible military operation in Chicago for days. At the weekend he spread a graphic created with the help of artificial intelligence, which shows the city’s skyline and reminds of the film “Apocalypse Now” in the design and choice of words, which deals with the horror of war.

Chicago will find out why the US Department of Defense was renamed the Ministry of War, the post said in the Truth Social platform. There was also the saying “I love the smell of deportations in the morning” – an allusion to the well -known film quote “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning”.

No evidence of crime wave

Trump had announced in the election campaign to carry out the greatest deportation campaign in the history of the United States. Some areas in the United States, in which many migrants live, have an increase in crime. However, experts attribute this to complex sociopolitical circumstances. There is no evidence of a wave of crime caused by migrants, nor for the fact that this group commits significantly more crimes than locals. According to surveys, the opposite is rather the case.