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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducts targeted immigration enforcement crackdowns in multiple U.S. cities, including Chicago and Los Angeles.

In 2025, the Trump administration conducted large-scale deportation operations that deployed U.S. immigration agents and military personnel to multiple U.S. cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon.

A 2025 Department of Justice document listing 614 immigrants arrested in Chicago showed 598 (97.4%) had no criminal records at the time of their arrest and 16 (2.6%) had criminal records.

None of the 614 people listed in a 2025 Department of Justice document of immigrants arrested in Chicago were recorded as convicted of or arrested for murder or rape.

President Donald Trump’s administration defended federal immigration enforcement operations in cities such as Los Angeles and Chicago as necessary for fighting crime and enforcing immigration laws.

In 2025, the Trump administration conducted targeted immigration sweeps in some Democrat-led U.S. cities and deployed the National Guard to support immigration agents and respond to anti-ICE protests in cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; those National Guard deployments prompted legal challenges by state officials.

Little Village is a neighborhood in Chicago that is largely Mexican.

By 2025-11-05, Operation Midway Blitz had resulted in more than 3,000 immigration arrests in the Chicago area since early September 2025.

Gregory Bovino is a senior U.S. Border Patrol official who has been publicly identified with immigration enforcement efforts in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Little Village is a Southwest Side neighborhood of Chicago that is frequently referred to as "La Villita".

Federal authorities have used National Guard deployments to respond to protests in multiple U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon.

In summer 2025, Chicago recorded its lowest number of homicides since the 1960s.

Some U.S. cities, including Chicago and Portland, have adopted 'sanctuary' policies that limit local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Rates of violent crime in the United States have been declining for decades, and in many U.S. cities, including Chicago, violent-crime levels are at or near record lows.

Chicago is the third-largest city in the United States.

Chicago had an estimated population of about 2.7 million people.

As of early October 2025, Chicago had nearly 1,200 shootings year-to-date in 2025, a decline of about 35% from 1,778 shootings reported for January–October 2024.

As of early October 2025, overall crime in Chicago was approximately 35% higher compared with 2021.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that its Operation Midway Blitz campaign was associated with a 16% drop in murders, a 35% reduction in shootings, and a 20% decrease in transit crime in Chicago after the campaign began in September 2025.

In 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deployed personnel to major U.S. metropolitan areas such as Chicago and Washington, D.C. as part of expanded efforts to disrupt smuggling networks and track undocumented migrants.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported that in fiscal year 2024 there were approximately 330,000 ICE removals and approximately 447,600 CBP returns.

A 2023 study of the Chicago community violence intervention program Create Real Economic Destiny found that program alumni had a 73% lower chance of being involved in a violent crime in the two years following participation.

Manufacturing closures beginning in the 1960s, including steel-mill shutdowns, contributed to long-term economic decline in some Chicago neighborhoods such as Roseland.

Operation Midway Blitz is a federal law enforcement operation in the Chicago area designed to apprehend and deport undocumented immigrants.

South Shore is a neighborhood in Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan with a predominantly Black population and a mix of middle-class residents and lower-income households.

About one-third of households in Chicago's South Shore have annual incomes under $25,000.

The Gangster Disciples are a Chicago street gang founded more than 50 years ago and are regarded as one of Chicago's most notorious street gangs.

The U.S. federal government has deployed federal agents, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, and National Guard troops to conduct immigration enforcement operations in U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago.

Chicago's Little Village neighborhood is a largely Mexican-American community.

Broadview, Illinois is a western suburb of Chicago located about 12 miles from downtown Chicago.