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Dick Durbin: “We are concerned in Illinois with Operation Midway Blitz, where ICE and the Department of Homeland Security came into…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2026
We are concerned in Illinois with Operation Midway Blitz, where ICE and the Department of Homeland Security came into our state and started looking for people to deport… It turned out that the majority of people they were deporting were not committing any crimes.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning about immigration enforcement and Flock data.

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