Illinois Governor Asks DHS To Pause Immigration Arrests During Halloween

Can you guess what the response was?

Noem rejects Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s request to pause immigration actions over Halloween weekend

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday flatly rejected a request by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend immigration enforcements in the Chicago area until after Halloween.

Pritzker cited children’s safety and an incident from Saturday in which Customs and Border Protection agents deployed tear gas in a neighborhood where kids were preparing for a Halloween parade.

In turning down the request, Noem also cited children’s safety.

“We’re absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe,” Noem said at a news conference in Gary, Indiana, on Thursday. “The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and, I think, unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets, especially when we’re going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season.”

Perhaps JB should have ordered Illinois law enforcement to work with DHS to get all the illegals out. Heck, they could have pointed DHS at the worst of the worst (who were being ignored by the governments in Illinois) which would have kept the ones who only broke the law by coming across the border illegally away from DHS….for a while, anyhow.

“I am respectfully requesting you suspend enforcement operations from Friday, October 31 to Sunday, November 2 in and around homes, schools, hospitals, parks, houses of worship, and other community gatherings where Halloween celebrations are taking place. Illinois families deserve to spend Halloween weekend without fear,” Pritzker wrote in a letter sent to Noem. “No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood.”

Yeah, well, if your voters would stop interfering, getting violent, blocking vehicles, assaulting federal agents, etc, there would be no tear gas.

Anyhow, why was Noem in Gary, Indiana?

ICE, Indiana troopers arrest more than 200 in immigration sweep

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday said the cooperation of Indiana and other states on immigration is crucial to making the nation’s highways safer.

Noem, Gov. Mike Braun, and officials with both U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Indiana State Police said state troopers have arrested 223 people suspected of being in the country illegally in the span of a little more than a month. The enforcement is part of ICE’s larger immigration sweep in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.

Of Indiana’s arrestees, Noem said 146 were truck drivers, more than 40 of whom had commercial driver’s licenses issued by states with sanctuary state laws, which include California, Illinois and New York. She said the arrests have led to charges for drug trafficking, child abuse, prostitution, assault, and domestic battery. The move followed several recent, high-profile fatal crashes involving truck drivers who were in the country illegally.

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