CHICAGO — U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who has spent the last five-plus weeks running the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” immigration enforcement campaign in the Chicago area, has been ordered to testify in federal court Tuesday after allegations he threw tear gas into a crowd Thursday with neither warning nor justification.

Following news of federal agents deploying tear gas again on Friday, U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis set an Oct. 28 hearing in an ongoing case over the Department of Homeland Security’s use of crowd control tactics on protesters. The judge also ordered lawyers for the Trump administration to “produce Defendant Gregory Bovino, in person, for this hearing.”

Ellis had already ordered Bovino be deposed in the case during an Oct.

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