"I mean, read the room, Brandon. Chicago's been under siege since the Trump administration launched Operation Midway Blitz in September, and DHS goons led by Nazi-shaped Gregory Bovino have since terrorized Halloween parades, pepper-sprayed a baby, and led to a 515% surge in arrests. (All of this, of course, has come as a part of Trump's ongoing efforts to carry out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.) And according to Justice Department records from November, 97% of the people detained had no criminal record at the time of their arrest."
"The first snowplow naming contests began in 2006, after Scotland introduced the tradition as a competition for primary school students, and it's since been adopted by U.S. states like Michigan, Minnesota, and Vermont. Minnesota was one of the first to start collecting submissions in 2020-as a way of keeping citizens engaged during the pandemic-but in 2021, the state's Department of Transportation had to remove "Abolish ICE" from a shortlisted final round of entries, and the 2025-26 contest rules specify that any political names will be disqualified."
The city is accepting snowplow name submissions online through January 10, 2026, with residents selecting six finalists to represent individual snowplows. Social-media users have campaigned to name a plow 'ABOLISH ICE' and reported that the name has repeatedly been proposed and rejected in past contests. Federal immigration enforcement under Operation Midway Blitz has been associated with aggressive tactics, a spike in arrests, and Justice Department records indicating 97% of detainees had no criminal record at arrest. Snowplow-naming contests began in Scotland in 2006 and were adopted by several U.S. states; one state removed 'Abolish ICE' and later disqualified political names.
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