Illinois Governor JB Pritzker mocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ahead of Halloween. He claimed that she must love the holiday “because she always dresses in law enforcement costumes.” His comments came after Noem rejected his request to pause the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Midway Blitz over Halloween weekend.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker told Secretary Noem, “families deserve to spend Halloween weekend without fear."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that immigration enforcement operations will be working in “full force” in Chicago on Halloween. In an interview on Fox News’s “America Reports,” Noem rejected a request from Illinois Gov.

At a briefing on Trump’s Midway Blitz immigration crackdown, Noem said calls for her agents to pause operations through Halloween were "shameful."

Noem also announced federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented immigrants across the Indiana border with commercial driver’s licenses, including some with Illinois CDLs.

At least six of the viral videos posted by the Department of Homeland Security in the last three months have been misleading, according to analysis

The news conference will “discuss recent results of Operation Midway Blitz,” the mass deportation mission that also includes Lake County.