GARY, IN – The official tasked with directing President Donald Trump ’s mass deportation campaign came to the Chicago area on Oct. 30 to tout the impact of the Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown.

At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.

"We’re absolutely not willing to put on pause any work we do to keep communities safe," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said of Gov. JB Pritzker ’s request. "The fact that he’s asking for that is shameful."

Noem’s address to reporters inside an Indiana National Guard aircraft hangar in Gary, Indiana, c

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