A few days after Zohran Mamdani’s won New York City’s mayoral election, an Illinois Department of Transportation worker found himself being stopped and questioned by ICE agents, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The agents allegedly asked him about his immigration status and even about the new NYC mayor. The worker, who is Indian and a US citizen, was later released. Gov. JB Pritzker has since raised concerns, calling out DHS and its ‘identity-based targeting.’

Ever since Trump returned to the Oval Office this year, the DHS, led by Kristi Noem, has been carrying out aggressive ICE raids across the US, deporting, arresting, and questioning immigrants as part of Trump’s push to tighten rules on foreign nationals, which he claims will restore law and order. ALSO READ Over 5,000 delays, 1,

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