Border Patrol’s Bovino due in court for first check-in on Chicago immigration crackdown
October 29, 2025
A senior Border Patrol official is due in court for the second day in a row in the first of his daily court-mandated check-ins about the Chicago area immigration enforcement operation, which has produced more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force. A federal judge took the rare step Tuesday of ordering Greg Bovino to brief her every evening on how his agents are enforcing the law and whether they are staying within constitutional bounds. It is an unprecedented bid to impose real-time oversight on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Bovino is chief of the Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, and is leading efforts in Chicago.