President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that the administration plans to “flood the zone” in sanctuary cities with federal immigration enforcement officers.

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“We got 10,000 more agents coming on, we’re going to flood the zone,” Homan told reporters outside the White House.

Last week, the Trump administration asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, offering a clue of what an expanded law enforcement crackdown might look like in the nation’s third-largest city.

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The request came weeks after the Republican administration deployed National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to target crime,

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