ICE defies Chicago's 'sanctuary' status and arrests 156 illegals

Washington Times:

Federal officers arrested 156 illegal immigrants and other people eligible to be deported from around the Chicago area over a six-day period, Homeland Security announced Tuesday.

It’s the latest sweep to target “sanctuary city” jurisdictions, which refuse some level of cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, have some of the most generous sanctuary policies in the country.

“‘Sanctuary cities’ not only provide refuge to illegal aliens, but they also protect criminal aliens who prey on people in their own communities,” said Ricardo Wong, field office director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division in Chicago. “The Chicago area is safer today because of the hard work of the men and women of ERO.”

The six-day operation, which ended last Thursday, targeted illegal immigrants and legal immigrants whose criminal records made them eligible for deportation.

ICE said the targets of the operation generally either have criminal records, have snuck back in after having previously been deported, or were ordered removed but are defying the order.

But in looking for those targets out in the communities, ICE will now arrest some of the other illegal immigrants it comes in contact with, officials said. That’s a reversal from the Obama administration, which had carved most illegal immigrants out of any danger of deportation.
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I would think Chicago would be a target rich environment for ICE.  How many of the gang-related murders in the Chicago area were by illegal immigrants fighting over the drug trade turf?