Top Trump administration officials visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the start of ramped-up immigration enforcement in the nation’s third-largest city as federal agencies touted arrests around the country.

The Trump administration launched an immigration enforcement blitz nationwide Sunday that included multiple federal agencies and resulted in the arrest of nearly 1,000 people, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The number of arrests there was uncertain. Illinois officials, including the governor, said they had not been given advance notice.

President Trump's "Border czar" Tom Homan and other top officials oversaw immigration enforcement efforts in Chicago on Sunday, as ICE officials announced 956 arrests in one day on Sunday Why it matters: The largest number of single-day arrests announced by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump took office last Monday and declared a national emergency on the U.

The Trump administration is aiming to arrest 1,200 to 1,500 people per day for immigration violations, more than double recent levels, the Washington Post reported Sunday, as President Donald Trump vows to conduct the “largest deportation operation” in U.