Overview

• Homeland Security’s Operation Midway Blitz remains active in the Chicago area, with an estimated 200 ICE officers deployed and the agency saying arrest totals will be released later.
• State Sen. Karina Villa reported multiple arrests in West Chicago and sightings in Aurora, while the Cook County public defender’s office noted detentions near a West Side courthouse and plainclothes agents outside the domestic-violence court.
• Human Rights Watch says CCTV footage does not show Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez’s car driving at or hitting officers during the Sept. 12 stop, urging an independent probe as DHS maintains an agent was dragged and fired in self-defense.
• In Massachusetts, 16-year-old Gustavo Oliveira was briefly detained in Milford and later met with ICE in Burlington; his attorney alleges agents used him to reach his asylum-seeking parents, who were told to report Tuesday.
• Illinois leaders including Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson criticized the enforcement surge and demanded transparency, as schools in West Chicago enacted a “secure and teach” protocol and community rapid-response teams mobilized.