Special Report

A border crosser. An execution killing. And political theater.

For one day in September, Jose Coronado Meza became the Trump administration’s poster child for why Chicago needed to be flooded with federal agents. Coronado Meza had been ordered deported. But the Biden administration let him live in Chicago, where he got arrested for murder. Democrats’ “sanctuary” ways had coddled a would-be killer. Or so the argument went. But a deeper look at the case offers a window into the erratic nature of immigration enforcement — even in eras when administrations tout crackdowns.

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