Prospects of a raid in Chicago come just a few weeks after Trump's border czar Tom Homan visited the city and threatened to prosecute the mayor if he did not cooperate.

"There's going to be a big raid across the country. Chicago is just one of many places," said Homan, a former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who oversaw a policy that separated migrant parents and children at the border under the first Trump administration.

Tom Homan says in his long career in border enforcement he has “seen what policies worked and what policies don’t work.”

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is reconsidering plans for immigration raids in Chicago next week after details were leaked, Trump's “border czar” Tom Homan told the Washington Post in an interview on Saturday.

Raids to detain and deport migrants living in the US without permission are set to begin on the first full day of the new Trump administration, US media report. The operations - threatened by Donald Trump's "border tsar" Tom Homan - could begin in Chicago,

The hard-line policies in his first term were a significant shift that reframed the national conversation on immigration and helped return him to the White House.

Donald Trump's incoming U.S. presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with planning.