Noem responded to a letter from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker asking her to have federal agents stand down during trick-or-treating.

Pritzker's Halloween request, first obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, came four days after ICE agents fired tear gas in the Old Irving Park neighborhood as families and children walked to a Halloween parade.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has urged ICE Barbie Kristi Noem to let kids enjoy the Halloween holiday and stop the clampdown on migrants. He wrote to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Noem “respectfully requesting” the suspension of citywide operations from Friday through Sunday, “so children can safely celebrate Halloween.”

In a letter sent to DHS officials, Pritzker said “Illinois families deserve to spend Halloween weekend without fear.”

Few fights between state and federal leaders get this raw. Halloween weekend, and already tempers are high. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flatly rejected Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s plea to pause immigration raids around Chicago so families could celebrate Halloween “without fear.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and President Trump to pause Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago for the Halloween weekend, saying the state's families deserve "a break.

No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Se