The Trump administration is stepping up immigration enforcement in Chicago through Operation Midway Blitz, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.

News of the operation came the same day the Supreme Court sided with the administration on an immigration matter when it lifted a lower-court ruling limiting raids in Los Angeles after complaints of racial profiling.

“This stay reaffirms what we’ve always known: lower court activist judges are trying to impede the President from lawfully carrying out the American people’s agenda,” Abigail Jackson, a Trump administration spokeswoman, told the Washington Post in a statement.

The Supreme Court’s ruling is limited to Southern California, but could be seen as clearance for the administration to ramp up immigration efforts in other c

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