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The Division of Homeland Safety is celebrating a victory after an “act of judicial overreach has been paused.”
On Wednesday, an appeals courtroom blocked an order issued on Tuesday that required a senior Border Patrol official to offer unprecedented every day briefings to a choose about immigration sweeps in Chicago.
U.S. District Decide Sara Ellis had ordered the conferences after weeks of tense encounters and more and more aggressive techniques by authorities brokers engaged on Operation Halfway Blitz, which has resulted in additional than 1,800 arrests and complaints of extreme power.
Whereas Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino advised Fox Information earlier Wednesday that he was keen to speak to Ellis, authorities attorneys have been interesting her choice on the identical time, calling it “terribly disruptive.”
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Protesters yell towards U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino when he leaves federal courtroom in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nam Y. Huh)
“The order considerably interferes with the quintessentially govt operate of making certain the Nation’s immigration legal guidelines are correctly enforced by waylaying a senior govt official crucial to that mission each day,” the Justice Division argued.
“We’re thrilled this act of judicial overreach has been paused,” the Division of Homeland Safety mentioned in an announcement to The Related Press.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol brokers arrive to escort U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino from federal courtroom in Chicago, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nam Y. Huh)
On Tuesday, the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) launched footage on X that seems to point out Border Patrol brokers beneath siege throughout an immigration raid in Chicago’s Little Village, a Southwest Facet neighborhood sometimes called “La Villita” and residential to one of many largest Mexican American communities within the Midwest.

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on October 28. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs)
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“VIDEO EVIDENCE,” DHS wrote within the put up with the video connected.
Final week, on Oct. 22, three unlawful immigrants and 6 U.S. residents have been arrested on expenses on what DHS dubbed “one of the violent days” of Operation Halfway Blitz.
Fox Information Digital’s Rachel Wolf and The Related Press contributed to this report.