Good morning, Chicago.

As it advertised its so-called Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, the Department of Homeland Security used social media to broadcast a now-familiar refrain.

In a string of posts on the platform X, the agency blasted state and local laws that restrict local authorities from participating in federal immigration enforcement. Officials included photographs of 11 men they called the “worst of the worst” who have been released from local jails and prisons, despite requests from ICE for administrative detainers.

Gov. JB Pritzker, in turn, has shot back that the Trump administration is trying to scare people, rather than work with officials to find real solutions to the city’s violence.

At its heart, the argument is rooted in long-held legislation, public policy and ca

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