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(NewsNation) — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials accidental Latin Kings thoroughfare pack leaders person issued a "shoot connected sight" bid targeting agents progressive successful Operation Midway Blitz successful Chicago, NewsNation has learned.
"Officer/agents are reminded to support heightened situational consciousness and workout utmost caution erstwhile conducting enforcement activities," the agency's interior informing said.
News of the alert comes aft shots were reportedly fired astatine national agents during an migration enforcement cognition successful the city's Little Village vicinity connected Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security says a radical of radical besides threw a overgarment tin and bricks astatine a Border Patrol vehicle.
A DHS spokesperson wouldn't remark connected the reported Latin Kings menace but added "our instrumentality enforcement is present facing an 8,000% summation successful decease threats against them portion they hazard their lives each azygous time to region the worst of the worst."
"Nearly mundane we person seen violence, assaults, oregon smears against our officers successful Chicago, including yesterday erstwhile agents vehicles were rammed aggregate times and shots fired astatine them.”
Tensions stay precocious 2 months into Operation Midway Blitz. Residents who reason the Trump administration's migration crackdown person protested and adjacent followed and confronted heavy equipped agents.
Judge Sara Ellis issued an extended injunction this week restricting agents’ usage of unit aft saying a apical Border Patrol authoritative repeatedly lied astir threats posed by protesters.
