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#Operation Midway Blitz

2 incidents

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

ICE Agent Kills Silverio Villegas González in Franklin Park, Illinois; Body Camera Undercuts DHS Account

An ICE agent shot a Mexican father of two in the back of the neck during a traffic encounter near Chicago. DHS said the agent was seriously injured and dragged; body-camera footage has the agent describing his injuries as 'nothing major.' Illinois police opened an investigation eight months later.

Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Operation Midway Blitz: Chicago Immigration Surge Breached a Court Decree on Warrantless Arrests and Drew Orders Limiting Force Against Protesters and Press (2025)

During the Chicago-area immigration surge, ICE made warrantless arrests that federal courts found breached a binding consent decree DHS had said it would stop following. A federal judge also restricted agents' use of chemical weapons against protesters and journalists. Appeals courts affirmed the consent-decree findings in part but vacated the use-of-force injunction on procedural grounds after the case was dropped.