"Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has jailed almost 9,000 foreign-born gang members since 2005.
A four-day operation that ended Wednesday targeted immigrants with gang ties in suburbs and towns northwest of Chicago. ICE, as the agency is known, says 42 of the 49 detainees have criminal histories.
That’s got Tara Magner of the Chicago-based National Immigrant Justice Center wondering about the other seven."