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Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will be in court on Wednesday to face questions about federal agents' use of force.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol are fighting over who is better-suited to arrest illegal immigrants inside the U.S.
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.
Top Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, who oversees the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, came under the microscope of a federal judge Tuesday after she received reports federal agents were not following her order to limit aggressive tactics and warn protesters and journalists before using tear gas and less-lethal munitions.
Instead of carefully targeted arrests long practiced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Donald Trump’s administration has deployed roving groups of masked Border Patrol agents,
The number of Border Patrol encounters in Arizona and the entire U.S.-Mexico border has been steadily rising since July 2025.
A federal judge gave Donald Trump’s Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino a humiliating dressing down and demanded he report to her courtroom every weekday to explain his force’s controversial actions—effective immediately.
The city learned about plans to build a new barrier along the southern border during a regular meeting with the Department of Homeland Security.
Border Patrol agents are implementing winter safety protocols along the U.S.-Canadian border as temperatures drop, officials said.