Noem, Pritzker trade barbs over Trump's Midway Blitz and Halloween Michael Loria, USA TODAY October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM 0 Noem, Pritzker trade barbs over Trump's Midway Blitz and Halloween GARY, IN – The official tasked with directing President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign came to the Chicago area on Oct. 30 to tout the impact of the Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown.
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Michael Loria, USA TODAY October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Noem, Pritzker trade barbs over Trump's Midway Blitz and Halloween
GARY, IN – The official tasked with directing President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign came to the Chicago area on Oct. 30 to tout the impact of the Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown.
At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school's Halloween festivities.
"We're absolutely not willing to put on pause any work we do to keep communities safe," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said of Gov. JB Pritzker's request. "The fact that he's asking for that is shameful."
Noem's address to reporters inside an Indiana National Guard aircraft hangar in Gary, Indiana, comes nearly two months into the White House blitz on the Chicago area. The Homeland Security secretary said over 3,000 people had been arrested in connection with the blitz, including in Indiana. She described them as "criminal illegal aliens" and the "worst of the worst" although federal officials have not provided information on the people they have arrested aside from a small number.
The secretary said her agency would provide information on the people arrested. Officials have not yet shared information in response to multiple requests.
Chicago faces ICE crackdowns.
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Stickers on the check-in counter of a Latin social dancing event. The People's Social on Oct. 17 donated proceeds to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights as Chicago faces ICE crackdowns.
In Springfield, Illinois, Pritzker slammed Noem's description of the people arrested.
"Don't believe it when they tell you that they're busting the worst of the worst and gang members," the governor said. "They're attacking peaceful children in parades and Halloween costumes."
The back-and-forth between the leaders comes as the Supreme Court weighs whether to allow Trump to deploy the National Guard to help enforce the blitz. Government lawyers say federal agents cannot enforce the law without help from the military. Illinois and Chicago Democratic leaders say the move to deploy troops is really a power grab on the part of the Republican White House.
Among the latest in the blitz, a leading voice of anti-immigration enforcement protests in Chicago and Democratic Congressional candidate has been indicted on federal charges; a federal judge in Illinois hauled Trump's top crackdown enforcer Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino into court to question him about his agents' use of chemical agents; and Pritzker announced he would be starting a commission to keep track of suspected abuses by federal agents carrying out the blitz.
Other leaders speaking alongside Noem in Gary were Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons.
Protesters could be seen in the area outside the National Guard facility. Immigration authorities use the airport in Gary to conduct deportation flights.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Halloween won't stop Trump's Midway Blitz, Kristi Noem promises
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