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Operation Midway Blitz | By the Numbers
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As of Tuesday, October 21st 2025.
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📊 Summary Statistics
Total Detained:
Documented Incidents:
- Fatal shootings: 1 (Silverio Villegas-González, Franklin Park - September 12, 2025)
- U.S. citizens wrongfully detained: At least 3+ confirmed, including 2 children and 1 middle school teacher
- Tear gas deployments: Multiple confirmed incidents in Chicago neighborhoods (Logan Square, Albany Park, East Side), and at protests at the ICE Broadview facility.
- Court violations: 22+ warrantless arrests found illegal by federal judge; agents violated October 9 restraining order on tear gas use.
- Media protections: WGN employee Debbie Brockman was violently arrested by federal agents on Friday, October 10th — one day after a federal judge ruled that ICE and CBP can’t use tear gas, pepper spray, and similar weapons against journalists + peaceful protestors.
ℹ️ Operation Details
Scope of Operations:
Start Date: Announced September 8, 2025
End Date: N/A
- No official end date, according to ICE Chicago Field Director Russell Hott on October 7th. “Gas pedal down until we get to the end of this” said Hott. It’s unclear what “this” is referring to.
- “Federal immigration agents’ use of Naval Station Great Lakes will continue through “at least December,” leaders at Naval Station Great Lakes have been informed, according to an email obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times and a source who was familiar with the plans.” [Chicago Sun-Times, October 15]
Actual Scope: Entire state of Illinois and Lake County, Indiana
- Arrest info shared by Homeland Security/ICE also include arrests from several surrounding states [CBS News, October 14]
Primary Processing Facility: 1930 Beach St, Broadview, IL 60155
Agencies Involved:
Mapping Activity & Detentions in Chicago
Immigration Activity Log
Data Limits & Government Credibility
Comprehensive information has been released for a small handful of the 1,500 individuals detained during ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ (and the overlapping CBP ‘Operation At Large’), according to the most recent updates from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees both ICE and its sibling agency, CBP. The department and component agencies have refused to comply with FOIA requests and declined to provide detailed information on the vast majority of arrests.
Many specific arrest locations, detention numbers, and detainee information remain unconfirmed. The map below represents confirmed incidents based on media coverage, rapid response networks, court filings, and witness accounts.
There are growing concerns of blatant misrepresentation of immigration enforcement data, including several instances of inaccurate or fake statistics shared by Homeland Security (including ICE and CBP) and White House officials.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565146/white-house-claims-more-than-1-000-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents-data-says-otherwise
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/16/ice-arrested-nearly-400-in-chicago-nearby-states-in-the-days-after-trumps-inauguration-records/
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/number-of-detained-immigrants-with
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/is-ice-really-targeting-the-worst-of-the-worst-new-data-suggests-otherwise-214600729.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEUrO_L60ZvfteGJwljSdXJXOIbHAJPW3kEa-4OVC1wzuqQFSHsp38Uod_7b3ey2yGFs3Pp0ia77Ks5_9THedJ7xmgbuqven8f3H9QsWrv-EvjLVVRtYbocB6OQbi09_EFX7dQ3nCvqID77F8gKIInMgXjGlzlyLsFYoP3VrKNRu
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/21/ice-arrests-increase-across-chicago-under-trump-many-with-no-convictions-data-shows/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/feds-says-1500-arrested-in-ice-crackdown-in-chicago-data-show-some-arrests-outside-illinois/
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-immigrants-violent-crime-chicago-illinois-ice-rcna237272
Links to news coverage, rapid response posts, and other documentation is available for each incident in the ‘Table’ view.