Officials launch immigration raid at O'Hare Airport
November 7, 2007
BY ERIC HERMAN Criminal Courts Reporter

Federal and local authorities launched an early-morning immigration raid at O’Hare Airport today, officials said.

The raid, which began at 4:45 a.m., targeted illegal immigrants with false identification who were being allowed to load cargo onto airplanes, sources said.

The raid included agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security known as ICE — as well as Cook County sheriff’s deputies, sources said.

“What I can tell you at this point is that ICE agents, in conjunction with other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, are conducting an enforcement operation subsequent to an eight-month-long investigation,â€