The Department of Homeland Security has said federal agents have made more than 1,500 arrests as part of the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz,” which began more than a month ago.
CBS News Chicago has been digging into federal data to find out exactly who is being arrested and if those numbers really line up.
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed months ago, asking for the names and numbers of people who’d been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, ICE referred CBS News Chicago to a data dashboard that tells a pretty interesting story…