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IT’S OFFICIAL: President Trump Launches ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ Surging Federal Troops Into Chicago
The Trump Administration has launched it’s much anticipated anti-crime and immigration crackdown in Chicago today.
The large operation is still ramping up as I type.
DHS has verified it is surging federal agents into the Democrat led ‘sanctuary city’ as part of the operation.
President Trump stated emphatically almost a week ago during an Oval Office presser ‘we’re going in’ when asked about the imminent crackdown.
But just last night, speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Andrews Airforce Base, he specified that plans would be nailed down “over the next day or two”:
.@POTUS: “Chicago is a very dangerous place — and we have a governor that doesn’t care about crime… We’re going to make a decision as to where we go over the next day or two.” pic.twitter.com/NyIvqyy3PV
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 7, 2025
Now, less than 24 hours later, the greenlight has been given and ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ has been confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security to now be underway.
The operation is being carried out in honor of a woman killed by an illegal in Chicago, Katie Abraham, as reported by the New York Post:
The Department of Homeland Security kicked off a crackdown on illegal immigrants in Chicago Monday — after local Democrats spent the weekend protesting President Trump’s threat of a federal law enforcement surge in America’s third-largest city.
“DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by criminal illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol in Illinois,” the department tweeted.
ICE has been positioning staff to carry out operations for more than a week, leading sources to say that a crackdown was imminent.
The mission isn’t yet a full-blown policing intervention — and Trump has vacillated in public remarks on whether he will order a surge of federal agents into the Windy City to fight violent crime.
“We’d love to go into Chicago,” Trump said in a speech in DC Monday morning. “We’re waiting for a call from Chicago.”
There is no word on any call coming from Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, or from Illinois Governor Pritzker.
Though no one seriously expected either the Mayor or Governor to suddenly come to their senses and work WITH the Trump Administration on their crime and immigration issues.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the operation via their official X account, along with a video highlighting the death of Katie Abraham as lamented by her parents:
DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by criminal illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol in Illinois.
This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois… pic.twitter.com/OjbgtTE1Au
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 8, 2025
Here’s the full text of that DHS announcement:
DHS is launching Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by criminal illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol in Illinois.
This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.
President Trump and Secretary Noem stand with the victims of illegal alien crime while Governor Pritzker stands with criminal illegal aliens.
Besides the ‘blitz’ in Chicago, the Trump Administration is blitzing Gov. Pritzker for his lack of action on the criminals, terrorists, and dangerous illegals in Illinois.
In that previous video from Fox News, you heard President Trump say that Gov. Pritzker “doesn’t care about crime”.
And then this morning, as the operation kicked off…
The Department of Homeland Security shared another video of an Assistant Secretary at DHS talking about some of the specifics of Gov. Pritzker’s lack of zeal for dealing with those issues.
Check out this clip of Tricia McLaughlin with DHS from this morning, discussing what it has been like trying to keep Americans safe with Pritzker standing in the way:
It is DISGUSTING that @GovPritzker chooses to fight for the criminal illegal aliens in Chicago instead of his American constituents.
Under the leadership of @POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem, DHS will continue to target the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in Chicago, Boston,… pic.twitter.com/9M7inzESmg
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) September 8, 2025
According to McLaughlin, there aren’t just illegal “immigrants” walking around the streets of Chicago — as if that weren’t bad enough.
There are “MS-13 gang members, known or suspected terrorists, convicted murderers, rapists…” out on the streets.
Why? Because even when they get picked up for some infraction, they almost immediately use that “cashless bail” system to get right back out on the street.
It’s the proverbial revolving door that we always hear about, allowed to spin freely by the Democrat governor and mayor.
As the DHS announcement emphasized, the operation in honor of Katie Abraham is targeting illegals like the one responsible for her death in Illinois, who attempted to flee across the southern border with Mexico following the crash.
Twenty-year-old Katie died in that drunk-driving crash, and her twenty-one-year-old friend died the very next day at the hands of this drunk illegal who attempted to LEAVE the country immediately after fleeing the scene:
BREAKING: ICE launches “Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago
The operation is in honor of Katie Abraham and Chloe Polzin, who were kiIIed in a drunk driving crash caused by an illegal in Illinois.
There is no such thing as a sanctuary city anymore.
If you’re here illegally,… pic.twitter.com/5kNQUd55xp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 8, 2025
Even so, Mayor Brandon Johnson has ordered Chicago’s police force to refuse cooperation with federal immigration agents just last week, according to the local Fox News affiliate out of Chicago:
The operation was launched in honor of Katie Abraham, who was killed this year in a hit-and-run car crash with a Guatemalan man who was in the country illegally.
“This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets,” a tweet from the department read.
Abraham, 20, was visiting friends at the University of Illinois in January when the car she and four of her friends were traveling in was suddenly hit.
“They were at a stoplight and there was someone who was driving drunk who hit them from behind at full force. And following the accident, he fled on foot,” said Katie’s father, Joe Abraham.
Katie died at the scene, and her friend, Chloe Polzin, 21, of Deerfield, died the following day.
U.S. Marshals arrested Julio Cucul Bol, a Guatemalan national using an alias, on a bus in Texas headed for the Mexican border just days after the crash.
Over the course of the Trump administration’s immigration surges, Chicago officials repeatedly reaffirmed the city’s so-called sanctuary policies that have been place for four decades.
Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order last week declaring city police would not collaborate with federal immigration agents. It also requires Chicago officers to wear uniforms and not wear masks to “clearly distinguish them from federal agents.”
“We will not have our police officers who are working hard every single day to drive down crime deputized to do traffic stops and checkpoints for the president,” Johnson said before signing the order. (Emphasis added.)
Did you catch that part in bold?
The Mayor of Chicago is going so far as changing the uniforms and issuing decrees about wearing masks to local law enforcement…
So that the population can clearly identify the federal agents.
Tell me again why Mayor Brandon Johnson isn’t in handcuffs yet for obstruction of justice — among other things!?
Meanwhile, a little more than an hour ago, even the local Fox News reporters seemed a lot more like something you might hear from CNN or MSNBC while covering the start of the operation.
Check out this video report from Fox News’ coverage locally:
The Trump Administration is obviously unrelenting in shifting the dynamics of illegal immigration and violent crime across the United States — including these so-called “sanctuary cities”.
And the local population has been consistently stirred up to a fevered pitch against federal agents who are lawfully acting on the orders of the President in order to push back the AVOIDABLE crime epidemic.
While it remains to be seen exactly how heavy-handed President Trump has decided to go on the issue of possible National Guard involvement, it is unlikely that he’ll suffer this to be done halfway.
If the decision has been made to “go in”, as he said last week, it’s a sure bet that Operation Midway Blitz is built around a plan of action designed for RESULTS.
Whether the National Guard is deployed or not… a surge of federal agents conducting raids and scooping up known threats is being promised by DHS to happen over the coming days.
The only question is just how far the local democratic leadership will be in throwing up roadblocks — either literal, or figurative in nature — to thwart President Trump and the federal agents acting on his behalf.
In that regard, this is a developing story — and we’ll bring you all the details as they play out.