{"id":339370,"date":"2025-10-28T22:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339370\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:47:29","slug":"judge-orders-daily-meetings-with-border-patrol-official-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/339370\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders daily meetings with Border Patrol official in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A judge in Chicago took the rare step Tuesday of ordering a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to brief her every night, an unprecedented bid to impose real-time oversight on the government\u2019s immigration crackdown in the city after weeks of tense encounters and tear gas thrown by officers.<\/p>\n

Greg Bovino, who has become the public face<\/a> of the Trump administration\u2019s city-by-city immigration sweeps, must sit for a daily 6 p.m. briefing to report how his agents are enforcing the law and whether they are staying within constitutional bounds, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said.<\/p>\n

Ellis also demanded full use-of-force reports from agents involved in a blitz that has netted over 1,800 arrests since September.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYes, ma\u2019am,\u201d Bovino responded to each request.<\/p>\n

Phillip Turner, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago, said the judge\u2019s order is extremely unusual.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been a lawyer for almost 50 years, and I\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d Turner told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Bovino got an earful from Ellis as soon as he settled into the witness chair in his green uniform. The judge quickly expressed concerns about video and other images from the campaign against illegal immigration. The hearing was the latest in a lawsuit by news outlets and protesters who say agents have used too much force, including tear gas<\/a>, during demonstrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy role is not to tell you that you can or cannot enforce validly passed laws by Congress. \u2026 My role is simply to see that in the enforcement of those laws, the agents are acting in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n

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Bovino is chief of the Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, one of nine on the Mexican border.<\/p>\n

The judge wants him to meet her in person daily \u201cto hear about how the day went.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect that now knowing where we are and that he understands what I expect, I don\u2019t know that we\u2019re going to see a whole lot of tear gas deployed in the next week,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n

Ellis zeroed in on reports that Border Patrol agents disrupted a children\u2019s Halloween parade with tear gas on the city\u2019s Northwest Side over the weekend. Neighbors had gathered in the street as someone was arrested. <\/p>\n

\u201cThose kids were tear-gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in their local school parking lot,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cAnd I can only imagine how terrified they were. These kids, you can imagine, their sense of safety was shattered on Saturday. And it\u2019s going to take a long time for that to come back, if ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellis ordered Bovino to produce all use-of-force reports since Sept. 2 from agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz. She first demanded them by the end of Tuesday, but Bovino said it would be \u201cphysically impossible\u201d because of the \u201csheer amount.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawyers for the government have repeatedly defended the actions of agents, including those from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and told the judge that videos and other portrayals have been one-sided.<\/p>\n

Besides his court appearance, Bovino still must sit for a deposition, an interview in private, with lawyers from both sides. <\/p>\n

The judge has already ordered agents to wear badges, and she\u2019s banned them from using certain riot control techniques against peaceful protesters and journalists. She subsequently required body cameras after the use of tear gas raised concerns that agents were not following her initial order.<\/p>\n

Ellis set a Friday deadline for Bovino to get a camera and to complete training.<\/p>\n

Attorneys representing a coalition of news outlets and protesters claim he violated the judge\u2019s use-of-force order in Little Village, a Mexican enclave in Chicago, and they filed an image of him allegedly \u201cthrowing tear gas into a crowd without justification.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, masked agents and unmarked SUVs were seen on Chicago\u2019s wealthier, predominantly white North Side, where video showed chemical agents deployed in a street. Agents have been recorded using tear gas several times over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

Bovino also led the immigration operation in Los Angeles in recent months, leading to thousands of arrests. Agents smashed car windows, blew open a door to a house and patrolled MacArthur Park on horseback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 A judge in Chicago took the rare step Tuesday of ordering a senior U.S. Border…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":339371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2064,276,48719,960,168,69,57,11202,1819,1818,409,336,362,50,167403,80,402,148124,61,67,370,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-339370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-border-security","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chemical-weapons","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-domestic-news","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-greg-bovino","17":"tag-il-state-wire","18":"tag-illinois","19":"tag-immigration","20":"tag-lawsuits","21":"tag-legal-proceedings","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-phillip-turner","24":"tag-politics","25":"tag-protests-and-demonstrations","26":"tag-sara-ellis","27":"tag-u-s-news","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-government","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115454230618015726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}