(NewsNation) — Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston, Illinois, said ICE's immigration crackdown in his community and others throughout the state is all about intimidation.

"When you have masked, armed agents manhandling people, when you have people being grabbed off the street, when they're deliberately being confusing and unclear on what their plans are so that enormous communities are just terrified, it's not about immigration, Biss said.

The Department of Homeland Security announced an immigration crackdown called "Operation Midway Blitz" in the state of Illinois in early September. The agency said Friday it had arrested more than 500 people so far as part of the initiative.

Biss added that there are other ways to fix the immigration system, and that the current operation does not offe

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