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PARK RIDGE, Ill. — Immigration enforcement officials have arrested more than 400 people as part of an operation in the Chicago area that launched a little less than two weeks ago, a top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Friday.

The figure, which has not been widely reported, offers an early gauge of what is shaping up as a major enforcement effort that comes after similar operations were launched in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

When asked whether he thought that number of arrests at this point in the operation was positive, Marcos Charles — the acting head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations — said 400 is a “solid number,” adding that the figure includ

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