CHICAGO — Officials from the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that the agency is investigating a series of bounties that have allegedly been placed on ICE agents in Chicago by criminal organizations in Mexico.
Officials from DHS said they have obtained “credible intelligence” indicating that targeted bounties on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel have been placed by what it described as “Mexican criminals” working in coordination with “domestic extremist groups.”
“These criminal networks have issued explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” a spokesperson for the agency said in a press release shared on Wednesday morning.
Border Patrol moved in to Chicago earlier this month to assist ICE and with good reason.
Sanctuary city Chicago has refused to turn over 1,550 illegal immigrants in local jails since Trump took office. Offenders are released on the streets rather than turned over to ICE to face…
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