The Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday that ICE had launched a 'nationwide public safety surge' across 11 states and Washington, DC. The announcement followed an encounter in a Chicago suburb in which immigration agents reportedly mistook a US citizen for a fugitive and left him injured and bloodied beside a road.
For context, local police and a resident who stopped to help described the Chicago incident, according to the account provided for this report. Illinois, where the encounter took place, is among the jurisdictions named in the new operation. The Chicago area has already been a main target of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
