The stepped-up role of Border Patrol leaders in interior enforcement — which has historically been ICE territory — marks an evolution of tactics that originated in California.

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.

The top U.S. Border Patrol commander spent an hour on the stand Tuesday, responding to U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' concerns about how federal agents have handled themselves, people they’ve detained,

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 number of Border Patrol encounters in Arizona and the entire U.S.-Mexico border has been steadily rising since July 2025.

Agents were in the area to conduct an operation to arrest an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had previously been arrested for assault when they cuffed the US citizen.

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.