Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
The Supreme Court is allowing federal immigration agents to continue making random stops of people in Los Angeles.
Opponents say this is blatant racial profiling.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the opinion,
saying no one should be stopped because they look Latino,
speak Spanish, and work a low-wage job.
The Department of Homeland Security is launching a federal immigration operation in Illinois.
NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports,
President Trump has repeatedly threatened to send National Guard troops as well as immigration and customs enforcement officers into Chicago.
DHS is calling it Operation Midway Blitz,
saying it's an honor of a woman killed by a drunk driver who was an unauthorized immigrant in Illinois.
NPR confirmed that crash took place this year in Urbana.
The driver was a Guatemalan national and is facing charges, including DUI and reckless homicide.
DHS says the operation will target, quote,
criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago in Illinois.
saying that they went there because they knew Illinois Democratic Governor J.B.
Pritzker's sanctuary policies will protect them.
The announcement comes as the U.S.
Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles after a lower court judge had blocked them.
Kat Vonstorf, Empire News, Chicago.