CHICAGO -- After two months of raids that netted thousands of arrests but also sparked anger and resistance, a surge of federal immigration agents that came to the city as part of the Trump administration's "Operation Midway Blitz" is closer to leaving Chicago as the mission winds down, multiple law enforcement sources told the Chicago 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 his command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune on Monday.

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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