CHICAGO: After weeks of vowing to deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, the Trump administration said on Monday (Sep 8) it had launched a deportation crackdown in Illinois targeting harde

After weeks of vowing to deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, the Trump administration said on Monday it had launched a deportation crackdown in Illinois targeting hardened criminals among immigrants in the U.S. without legal status. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in an online statement…

In Chicago, advocates for immigrants said they saw several arrests on Sunday, but were uncertain of the scale of federal action.