By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area .

Hours before a status hearing in the case, prosecutors moved to dismiss the charges against Marimar Martinez , 30, and Anthony Ruiz, 21, marking a dramatic reversal in one of the most closely watched cases tied to the crackdown in the country’s third-largest city.

The Department of Homeland Security has characterized people who have protested “Operation Midway Blitz ″ as violent rioters and vowed to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. But of the more than two dozen people arrested for impeding or assaulting federal officers or other

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