Nearly a year after the Trump administration launched Operation Midway Blitz, a new national report alleges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents committed widespread civil rights violations last year.
The ACLU research report, titled Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, examined immigration enforcement in 2025 across eight states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and New Mexico.
The authors examined more than 1,200 incidents and found more than 400 involving activity they consider misconduct, such as use of force, intimidation or retaliation. Almost half of the incidents involving misconduct were in Illinois. The ACLU compiled the information using a variety of sources, including news coverage, court filings and public statements from federal agencies.
“We saw some of the harshest use of those kind of militaristic tactics here as opposed to elsewhere,” said Ed Yohnka, director of communications and public policy for the ACLU of Illinois.
The Mexican government announced this month it would take legal action over 17 Mexican citizens who they say died as a result of ICE enforcement, including 14 in detention centers and three during ICE operations.
The Illinois incidents cited by the ACLU happened most often outside of homes and in neighborhoods, during traffic stops, during street stops and at big box hardware stores. Of those detained or targeted, 77 were adult U.S. citizens.
NBC 5 Investigates reached out to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and Border Patrol to ask about the report but did not hear back.
The Trump administration rolled back the Biden-era policy that prevented ICE and Border Patrol from operating at sensitive locations, like schools, hospitals and shelters. The report shows in Illinois, there were 37 incidents at sensitive locations.
“The cruelty that was put in place here by saying there is nowhere that’s safe — not a school, not a hospital, nowhere that’s safe — is that it it constricted the way in which people live their lives,” Yohnka said.
Yohnka was also troubled by how Illinois young adults were affected by immigration agents. More than 50 people who were detained or targeted were under the age of 21.
“We don’t know what the harm, the psychological harm, is for those children and those families, and we’re not going to know for a number of years,” Yohnka said.
Ultimately, he believes it’s important to document this history and think about what enforcement might look like in the future.
“We need to turn away from ICE as it has been structured under the Department of Homeland Security,” Yohnka said.
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