WSJ reports massive ICE deportation raids will take place Tuesday in Chicago

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to begin its promised campaign of unprecedented mass deportations with a series of raids in Chicago.

The raids will begin the day after the Republican is inaugurated, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The operation will include as many as 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and will target scores of migrants, including those with low-level criminal histories that would’ve been deemed low priority by the Biden administration.

Chicago was chosen because of its large immigration population and because of the incoming administration’s public feud with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, sources told the paper.

The Independent has contacted the Trump transition team and ICE for comment.

An estimated 18 percent of Chicago’s more than 2.6 million residents are foreign-born

In December, incoming immigration czar Tom Homan told a group of local Republicans that the Trump administration deportation program was “going to start right here in Chicago,” and threatened to prosecute Johnson.

“If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,” he reportedly said. “But if he impedes us — if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien — I will prosecute him'

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