() A man who was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers over the weekend in Chicago has been deported as the intensifying federal crime and immigration crackdown known as “Operation Midway Blitz” continues around the Chicago area.

Ana Miranda told on Monday that her father was among those detained by federal officers and agents over the weekend. Federal agents from the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE officers have been active both in Chicago’s downtown district and outside of an ICE processing center in suburban Broadview, which is serving as the main detainee processing hub for the ongoing operation.

Miranda told that her father is an undocumented resident but “follows the law to a T.” But Miranda’s father was detained by ICE and was captured on video obtained by .

Miranda said that before she could say goodbye to her father, he had already been sent to Texas along with 40 others. She told on Tuesday that her father is now in the custody of the Mexican National Guard on the Mexican side of the U.S. southern border, where military troops are providing detainees with clothing and giving them cash to cover their travel expenses back to their final destination.

“I can’t even imagine life without him,” Miranda told . “I feel like once he does get out (of federal custody) it’s just going to be a whole, completely new life for us.”

On Monday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced that the Illinois National Guard received a memo from the Department of Homeland Security, saying it has requested that 100 military troops be deployed to Chicago to protect ICE officers and facilities. ‘

The Broadview ICE processing center has remained at the epicenter of protests in which demonstrators have clashed with federal agents and officers. Officers have used tear gas and pepper balls against protesters, 11 of whom were detained on Saturday. Five of those demonstrators face federal crimes after Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino said two of the protesters brought loaded guns to the protest.

The attorney for those protesters said that the woman taken into custody was being crushed against a wall when her husband attempted to help her before he was detained.

“I don’t care what ICE said,” attorney Richard Kling said. “ICE is doing horrible things right now. They have armed soldiers in the streets, arresting people.”

Border Patrol agents were also out in force on Sunday when Bovino told on Monday that federal agents had hundreds of encounters with local residents. He said that reaction to the presence of federal agents “ran the gamut,” but he said many Chicago-area residents secretly want officers in the area.

Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have long maintained that the federal crackdown has nothing to do with making Chicago safer, but instead, is being used as a show of intimidation by the federal government.

However, President Donald Trump refuses to back down, saying Tuesday that “dangerous” cities such as Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Portland and other places that are being targeted by the federal government should be used as a “training ground” for the U.S. Military and National Guard.

Trump has said multiple times that he will deploy the National Guard to Chicago after the guard’s current operation is completed in Memphis. He reiterated that plan Tuesday, when he took aim at Pritzker.

“That’s a big city with an incompetent governor, stupid governor,” Trump said.

Bovino told that he supports the First Amendment rights of protesters but said that demonstrators will be arrested and charged if they threaten to harm federal officers. One of those charged in connection with the weekend demonstrations in Broadview allegedly threatened to kill one of the agents.

Pritzker, citing a Chicago Sun-Times report, claimed that federal officers are racially profiling people being targeted for detainment. However, Bovino told on Monday that it is not the case. Instead. He said agents use a myriad of “articulable facts” that, when combined with agents’ field experience, known intelligence and the observed demeanor of those encountered by agents, determine whether enough reasonable suspicion exists to take a person into federal custody.

“It’s not based on the way (someone), looks,” Bovino said. “We don’t go after white people, we don’t go after Black people, we don’t go after brown people, I don’t go after (Asian) people. … I go after (those who violate) immigration laws. It’s as simple as that.”