CHICAGO (AP) — The Border Patrol agent who has broken norms leading an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles said Tuesday that he had reached Chicago, potentially signaling a new, more aggressive phase to an enforcement surge announced last week in the nation’s third-largest city.
“Well, Chicago, we’ve arrived!” Gregory Bovino said in a post on X that included footage of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles and agents under city street signs and views of downtown. “Operation At Large is here to continue the mission we started in Los Angeles.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also stopped in Chicago, saying Department of Homeland Security officers made multiple arrests Tuesday morning.
President Donald Trump has promised for weeks that Chicago would see a surge in immi