After two months of raids that netted thousands of arrests but also sparked outrage and resistance , a surge of federal immigration agents that came to the city as part of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz may soon leave Chicago as the controversial mission winds down, multiple law enforcement sources told the Tribune.

Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the top official on the ground leading the Trump administration’s efforts, was expected to depart Chicago for another assignment within days, and most of the agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday morning.

An on-call task force composed of FBI and assistant U.S. attorneys is also expected to close up shop in the coming days, two of the sources said.

But the

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