Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://gographicsoutput.com/video/5tz4AS93EYB.html Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter JB Pritzker on “Operation Midway Blitz” and what he calls Trump’s “racist ends” | Morning Edition [wr7RY9q2dtx] Health Updated on August 09, 2026 EDT — Published on August 09, 2026 EDT Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke with NPR’s Morning Edition about “Operation Midway Blitz,” President Trump’s plan to surge hundreds of federal agents into Chicago in order to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. In a wide-ranging interview at the National Museum of Mexican Art, a Chicago institution connected with the city's substantial Latino population, Pritzker told NPR’s Steve Inskeep that the President has conflated immigration and crime for “racist ends,” saying Trump “wants people to think that every person that’s here that’s not born in the United States is a criminal.” ------------------------------------------------------ Follow NPR elsewhere, too: • Instagram: • TikTok: • Facebook: PDJQbZVQTDX KIWQJRrQBQe 5WCV40SHVjC 5nDFWBJQi62 3L7wLRKDl5p v7ghGZN4oiS SgSe7h958HX 4jTwvEB9Uuf
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker spoke with NPR’s Morning Edition about “Operation Midway Blitz,” President Trump’s plan to surge hundreds of federal agents into Chicago in order to find and arrest undocumented immigrants. In a wide-ranging interview at the National Museum of Mexican Art, a Chicago institution connected with the city's substantial Latino population, Pritzker told NPR’s Steve Inskeep that the President has conflated immigration and crime for “racist ends,” saying Trump “wants people to think that every person that’s here that’s not born in the United States is a criminal.” ------------------------------------------------------ Follow NPR elsewhere, too: • Instagram: • TikTok: • Facebook: PDJQbZVQTDX KIWQJRrQBQe 5WCV40SHVjC 5nDFWBJQi62 3L7wLRKDl5p v7ghGZN4oiS SgSe7h958HX 4jTwvEB9Uuf