Gov. JB Pritzker met with refugee rights advocates on Tuesday as the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, "Operation Midway Blitz," continued in Chicago. 

Pritzker held a roundtable discussion in Brighton Park with leaders from the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights to discuss ongoing federal deployments and the protection of constitutional rights.

The governor and Mayor Brandon Johnson both have said they have received no formal communication or information from the Trump Administration on their deportation operation in Chicago.

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol official who led controversial immigration enforcement raids in southern California this summer, has arrived in Chicago, two people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

But so far, Chicago has not seen any broad sweep of immigration raids by ICE agents, and the National Guard has not been mobilized.

However, there has been a steady stream of individual arrests by ICE in recent days.

Nonetheless, Pritzker said it's hard to tell where Chicago is on the big-picture timeline of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operation.

"ICE is somewhere on the ground here. They already have been effectuating their plans. We have not seen the bulk of those ICE agents yet in communities, but we have seen some, and we know that they are gathering steam," Pritzker said.

The governor said 100 ICE vehicles and 200 ICE agents are on standby near Chicago, and criticized reports that ICE agents have been stationed near Illinois courthouses.

"ICE sitting outside of courthouses that people are showing up to voluntarily. These are not people running away from authority. These are people seeking authority to stay in this country," he said.

Pritzker spent the morning with community groups trying to prepare for what's believed to be coming soon, and while the governor hasn't called the president, he pointed out Mr. Trump hasn't called him either.

"As far as I'm concerned, ICE needs to take it down about three notches," Pritzker said. "In fact, Tom Homan has basically said that they're going to be working double-hard here, in a way that they maybe didn't in Los Angeles."

In a post on X, Pritzker accused the Trump administration of failing to communicate or coordinate its immigration enforcement effort with state and local leaders.

"Once again, this isn't about fighting crime. That requires support and coordination — yet we've experienced nothing like that over the past several weeks. Instead of taking steps to work with us on public safety, the Trump administration's focused on scaring Illinoisians," he wrote.

Congressman Jesus "Chuy" Garcia called Operation Midway Blitz a "declaration of war on an American city."

Garcia said, "masked thugs kidnapping parents, children, and workers does not make us safer. Weaponizing and unleashing the military against our own people does not make us safer."

Sen. Dick Durbin also condemned the operation. In a speech on the Senate floor, he agreed with the president that he wants to reduce crime, but added that deporting people who have no criminal background is not the answer.

Durbin also said the president is targeting Chicago for "political theater."

Protest, march planned in Chicago Tuesday night  

Several coalitions and unions are holding an "emergency protest" on Tuesday night against "Operation Midway Blitz." 

Organizers say the mass demonstration is in opposition to the influx of ICE agents in Chicago and what they call "tyranny."

The protest and march will start at the Congress Plaza Garden, near Ida B. Wells and Michigan Avenue at 5 p.m.