ICE launches raids in Boston, Chicago braces for Trump crackdown: Unbiased Updates, Sept. 8, 2025

The White House launches a new immigration crackdown in Boston, the pushback from City Hall and the State House

Plus, Trump calls it Chipocalypse Now. Chicago calls it a showdown. The president's war of words and the protests in the streets

And an unlikely saint, the 15-year-old dubbed God's influencer, who just made history

The stories that matter, clear and credible, from across the country to around the world

These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News. Good morning, I'm Craig DeGrelli

This morning, the Trump administration is cranking up its immigration crackdown, this time taking aim at Boston

Homeland Security says the new operation, codenamed Patriot 2.0, will target what it calls the, quote

worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens living in Massachusetts. The administration is blaming Boston's Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu

accusing her sanctuary policies of, quote, harboring criminals and putting them above law-abiding citizens

The Justice Department has already sued Boston over its sanctuary rules, which limit police cooperation with federal immigration officers

Wu says local police won't be part of the raid and argues it won't make communities safer

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey went even further, calling the crackdown political theater

I support as attorney general and now as governor everything we can do on public safety

But what we have seen from ICE and from the administration really isn't about public safety

It's about political theater. It's about a political power grab at an attempt to intimidate

Operation Patriot 2.0 is a follow up to May's Operation Patriot, which led to 1500 arrests nationwide

wide. President Trump is walking back a social media post from over the weekend that looked a

lot like a threat to go to war with Chicago. On Saturday, the president posted an image of the

Chicago skyline with helicopters flames and the words Chicago about to find out why it called the Department of War The post was captioned Chipocalypse Now you see it right there a play on the classic war movie

The post came just a day after Trump signed an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War

On Sunday, when reporters pressed him on whether he was threatening an American city, President Trump called it fake news

We're not going to war. We're going to clean up our city. We're going to clean them up so they don't kill five people every weekend

That's not war. That's common sense. You could say the battle lines are drawn

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker fired back, calling the Post, quote, not a joke. This is not normal

Donald Trump isn't a strong man. He's a scared man. Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth told CBS the intention of Trump's Post was obvious

Let's make it clear. The president of the United States essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation

This is not normal, Margaret. This is not acceptable behavior. Duckworth joined thousands of protesters who took to the streets of Chicago over the weekend

marching, chanting and demanding Donald Trump keep federal troops and ICE agents out of the city

He wants everyone to be afraid. He loves to see that people are afraid

That's why he's bullying the most of them. But no, I think I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid

The administration has floated the possibility of deploying the National Guard to Chicago

as part of a broader crackdown on crime and immigration. DHS officials say ICE operations could begin as early as this week

With Trump's borders, our Tom Holman telling CNN on Sunday to expect action on sanctuary cities soon

New developments this morning after that massive immigration raid in Georgia. The U.S. and South Korea have struck a deal to release hundreds of detained workers

Seoul says more than 300 South Korean nationals detained last week in a federal raid at Hyundai's new electric vehicle plant

will be put on a charter flight home once paperwork clears They made up the bulk of 475 people swept up when federal agents stormed the under construction site a billion project slated to produce EV batteries and create thousands of jobs

Asked about the raid, President Trump said America still needs foreign expertise to help train workers in critical industries

It's a battery factory in that case, as I'm told. And, you know, when they're building batteries, if you don't have people in this country right now that know about batteries, maybe we should help them along and let some people come in and train our people to do complex things, whether it's battery manufacturing or computer manufacturing or building ships

So we're going to look at that whole situation. Meantime, South Korea's foreign minister is heading to Washington today for talks

including whether all detained workers could be sent back on a voluntary basis

Now to a breaking story to tell you about on this Monday morning, a deadly shooting attack

in Jerusalem. At least five people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a crowded bus stop

Israeli police say two attackers sprayed bullets into a crowd just after morning rush hour at one

of the city's busiest intersections. According to CNN, a security officer and a civilian fired back

killing both gunmen on the spot. At least a dozen others were wounded, several seriously

No group has claimed responsibility, but Hamas issued a statement calling the shooting, quote

a natural response to Israeli actions. The attack comes just hours after President Trump told

reporters an agreement on Gaza is within reach. I think we're going to have a deal on Gaza very

It's a hell of a problem. Again, it's a problem we want to solve for the Middle East, for Israel, for everybody

But it's a problem we're going to get done. President Trump is signaling he's ready to turn up the heat on Russia

saying he's prepared to move to a second phase of sanctions against Vladimir Putin

It came just hours after Russia launched its largest air assault since the war began

More than 800 drones and 13 missiles fired into Ukraine One drone slammed into a residential building in Kiev killing a mother and her baby Another strike ignited the country main government building for the first time in the war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Putin is testing the world. He's urging the United States and Europe to follow through with tougher sanctions and more air defense

Trump, pressed by reporters, said he's ready to deliver. Watch. Are you ready to move to the second phase of sanctions against Russia or punishing

As you heard there, just a very short answer, still no details on what those sanctions would involve or when they might kick in

Finally this morning, a history-making moment at the Vatican. On Sunday, the Catholic Church declared the first millennial saint

His name was Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old from Italy, known as God's Influencer

He used his tech savvy to create a website documenting miracles around the world

Carlo died of leukemia in 2006, but his legacy lives on. Thousands packed St. Peter's Square, and Pope Leo led the canonization ceremony

Carlo's mother told CNN her son's message was simple. Use the Internet for good

She said he often donated his pocket money to help the homeless in Milan

What a beautiful ceremony for the Catholic Church and Catholics all around the world, for that matter

Hey, before we head out, here's what we're tracking today. Starting in Florida, where Ryan Routh goes on trial, accused of trying to assassinate President Trump during a golf outing last fall

Routh will be representing himself. Then at 10, the president is set to speak at the Museum of the Bible, addressing the White House Religious Liberty Commission

with Attorney General Pam Bondi, also part of the program. In New York, all eyes on Howard Stern, who's teasing a big announcement amid growing questions about the future of his Sirius XM radio show

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Those are your unbiased updates for this Monday. We'll see you back here tomorrow. For all of us at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrelli

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