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CHICAGO – Top Justice Department officials urged FBI staff in northeastern Illinois to stay focused on a major federal immigration enforcement operation this week, as persistent civil unrest and feuding politicians threaten to interfere with President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime.

During a tour of the Chicago field office and an interview with Fox News Digital, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche discussed “Operation Midway Blitz,” the federal effort facing fierce resistance from protesters and local leaders.

Speaking inside a command post the size of a large classroom, Blanche told personnel it had become “obvious” that Chicago is “for now, a kind of ground zero in an escalating assault on law enforcement.”

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