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US District Judge Sara Ellis referred to several recent incidents, including one over the weekend in which US Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino was recorded throwing what appeared to be tear gas canisters into a crowd in a Chicago neighborhood without any warning.
US Customs and Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino will appear in court Tuesday to answer a judge’s concerns about federal agents’ aggressive tactics after he was recorded throwing what appears to be a tear gas canister into a crowd.
The number of Border Patrol encounters in Arizona and the entire U.S.-Mexico border has been steadily rising since July 2025.
The Trump administration began sweeping out Immigration and Customs Enforcement field chiefs across the country, reassigning many and moving Border Patrol veterans into top jobs to juice arrests. Nearly half of ICE’s 25 field office directors are being shifted,
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
On Saturday, Border Patrol agents converged on the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side to conduct an immigration enforcement raid. Neighborhood residents claimed the agents interrupted a children's Halloween parade and allegedly deployed tear gas without warning on residents trying to intervene.