The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

Targeted immigration enforcement operations by multiple agencies were launched in Chicago Sunday, with top Trump administration officials in the city to oversee it all. One of President Trump's many campaign slogans was,

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman on Thursday deputized agents and officers at the Justice Department to help in making immigration arrests, creating a force multiplier as President Trump seeks to carry out his promise of mass deportations.

ICE, along with several other federal agencies, began what they called "enhanced targeted operations" on Sunday in Chicago.

Donald Trump is leaning on agencies besides Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help execute his promise of carrying out mass deportations.

The Department of Homeland Security is allowing certain law enforcement components from the Department of Justice to carry out the "functions" of an immigration officer.

Steven Dettelbach, who stepped down from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF ... including six years as the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.