{"id":458087,"date":"2025-12-19T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458087\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:18:13","slug":"border-patrol-boss-greg-bovino-has-left-chicago-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458087\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Boss Greg Bovino Has Left Chicago: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino has again left Chicago, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n<p>Bovino was in Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/12\/17\/bovino-leads-caravan-through-chicago-and-suburbs-clashes-with-evanston-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Tuesday and Wednesday<\/a>, leading car caravans of federal immigration agents that arrested people in the city and suburbs. But he appeared to have left the city as of Thursday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/12\/18\/chicago-border-patrol-immigration-prepared\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Tribune<\/a> reported, citing anonymous sources. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why Bovino suddenly returned this week \u2014 and then quickly left \u2014 after departing Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/11\/10\/border-patrol-agents-pose-at-the-bean-for-apparent-photo-op\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">in mid-November<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Department of\u00a0Homeland Security\u00a0Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin\u00a0did not answer Block Club\u2019s questions about Bovino.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations,\u201d McLaughlin said Friday in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bovino has been the controversial face of operations Midway Blitz and At Large, which the Trump administration launched in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/12\/16\/border-patrol-boss-bovino-back-in-chicago-as-agents-target-southwest-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The Border Patrol chief returned to the city Tuesday<\/a> with about 200 federal agents, sweeping across the Southwest and West sides and going to suburban Berwyn and Cicero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a merry Christmas in Chicago,\u201d Bovino told Block Club on Tuesday. \u201cWe\u2019re going to enforce immigration law, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Bovino and agents detained residents and disrupted commutes from Midway Airport to suburban Evanston, and Bovino and Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss had a confrontation at a gas station.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino has again left Chicago, the Tribune reported. Bovino was in Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,121074],"class_list":{"0":"post-458087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-operation-midway-blitz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115747140776367831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458087","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=458087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}