Incoming Trump Reichsminister of National Purity Tom Homan is reconsidering plans for ICE raids in Chicago starting this week, claiming that the leak of him boasting that the Deep Dish City would be the first target on his list is causing him to back off temporarily, the Washington Post reports.
“ICE will start arresting public safety threats and national security threats on day one,” Homan told the Post. “We’ll be arresting people across the country, uninhibited by any prior administration guidelines. Why Chicago was mentioned specifically, I don’t know. This is nationwide thing.”
“The Wall Street Journal, which was first to report on the possible raid, wrote that Homan said at a holiday party last month in Chicago that the administration would start raids ‘right here’ and threatened to prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) for harboring undocumented immigrants if he got in the way,” the Post writes, which is exactly why “Chicago was mentioned specifically.”