Image Credit: Wid Lyman | Border Hawk 
Federal immigration officers chased a fleeing illegal alien who dangerously evaded in a Chicago-area neighborhood packed with arriving school buses.
Border Hawk reporters recently embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Operation Midway Blitz in the sanctuary state of Illinois.
Rafael Tolentino Martinez, an illegally-present Mexican national with a lengthy rap sheet that includes a conviction for domestic battery of a 3-year-old child resulting in permanent disablement, detected the presence of ICE agents as they closed in on him in Elgin, a city in the Chicago suburbs.
Martinez made several unlawful maneuvers while attempting to escape in a red Nissan sedan, placing children and uninvolved motorists at risk.
Agents eventually caught up with Martinez and took him into custody.
“One of the biggest misnomers from any jurisdiction, any politician who [claims] the work that we do ‘keeps people from reporting crime’ is patently false,” explained ICE field office director Russell Hott.
“There is nobody who has a greater nexus to the migrant community than the women and men in ICE. I can tell you, first-hand, when we encounter individuals, they tell us that they are grateful for the work we are doing, pulling people like this out of those neighborhoods.”
Officers also tracked an illegal alien from Laos with a conviction for homicide.
The Laotian was ordered deported by a federal immigration judge but remained in the U.S.
When agents located and surrounded the target vehicle, they discovered the driver was actually an acquaintance who was apparently borrowing the car.
The driver was quickly released and officers continued their search for the dangerous criminal.
“This is somebody who presents a significant public safety threat. Why do municipalities and states like Illinois take this stance of releasing these kinds of individuals back into the community as somehow benefitting the community?” Hott wondered aloud.
“These are the individuals that prey on migrant communities and prey on other individuals in our society.”
Federal agents are working long hours in dangerous conditions in sanctuary cities and states across the country amid an onslaught of political and physical attacks from the mainstream media, Democrat officials, and militant leftists and illegals.
“People are not being ‘kidnapped’ or ‘disappeared.’ We are following the law 100%. Somebody who is amenable to removal, they have an opportunity to appeal, all the way up to the Supreme Court. There is nothing stopping the due process that exists in the foundation of our nation,” Hott stated.
More than 1,000 illegal aliens have been arrested in the Chicago area since the launch of Operation Midway Blitz on Sept. 8.
