Federal agents yesterday unleashed “Operation Wagon Train,” a massive six-state operation to round up illegal immigrants at meatpacking plants. It netted nearly 1,300 arrests. Over at TPMmuckraker, we’ve been trying to track the fallout. You can read our coverage here.

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Despite reports that legal residents were arrested and are being held incommunicado, DHS insists no such thing has happened. Parents are being held or deported while their kids live at school or with loved ones. The raids took place in six far-flung communities — places like Cactus, Texas, and Marshalltown, Iowa — where we can’t get to easily.

Do you live nearby? What are your local news outlets reporting? What are you hearing? Drop us a line, send us a link, let us know.

Charles Rangel: Bush is in “deep shit.”

Karl Rove to retire from politics after he leaves the Bush White House?

That lucrative lecture circuit beckons…

Not being a doctor, I don’t know whether this is good news or bad. But a spokesperson for Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) now says that tests have shown that the senator did not suffer a stroke or heart attack.

Certainly sounds like good news.

Annals of CNN headline writing …

I had the impression they were pretty corrupt already. Ba dump bum.

(ed.note: Note of thanks to TPM Reader SP.)

Another update on Sen. Tim Johnson’s condition. Earlier we passed on the statement from the senator’s office that tests showed he had not had a stroke or a heart attack.

However, CBS now has a report out which repeats that statement and then follows with this: “Sources close to the situation tell CBS News the situation is definitely not good.”

I’m way out of my depth here in terms of what other conditions could be in play if it’s true that a stroke has been ruled out. But the additional line from CBS is both troublingly ambiguous and ominous.

From what I can tell CBS is the only news outlet reporting something like this in the background. There’s no point in my speculating. I’ll just pass it on. We’ll try to bring you more as we hear it.

Late Update: This report from NBC notes the conflicting accounts of what is happening.

The Post has an article on the president’s and vice president’s meeting Wednesday with the Joint Chiefs. It’s a long article but this is what jumped out at me: “The chiefs do not favor adding significant numbers of troops to Iraq, said sources familiar with their thinking, but see strengthening the Iraqi army as pivotal to achieving some degree of stability. They also are pressing for a much greater U.S. effort on economic reconstruction and political reconciliation.”

So the military brass does not favor ‘double down’, as it’s come to be known in the wingosphere. They also appear to be signaling that they do not believe there is a military solution to the crisis.

It does appear you’ve got a basic division in the country: the public and the military brass on one side and President Bush and the DC war pundits on the other.

Late News from the Post: Johnson underwent surgery. It’s unclear from the reports I’ve seen whether he is still in surgery or whether it’s concluded. It’s seems that the surgery had not concluded by the time the Post piece was published.

Late Update: At 12:39, CNN reports surgery is on-going.

Later Update: The Times reports that Johnson is “expected to be in the operating room until the early morning hours.”

Uncovered: a classified report detailing concerns over the treatment of terror detainees at a South Carolina Navy brig. That and other news of the day in today’s Daily Muck.

Statement just out from Sen. Johnson’s office …

Admiral John Eisold, Attending Physician of the United States Capitol said, “Subsequent to his admission to George Washington University Hospital yesterday, Senator Tim Johnson was found to have had an intracerebral bleed caused by a congenital arteriovenous malformation. He underwent successful surgery to evacuate the blood and stabilize the malformation. The Senator is recovering without complication in the critical care unit at George Washington University Hospital. It is premature to determine whether further surgery will be required or to assess any long term prognosis.”