Overview
- About an hour before his first scheduled meeting, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals stayed Judge Sara Ellis’s requirement that Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino brief her each weekday on Chicago operations.
- Ellis’s other directives continue, including visible identification, restrictions on tear gas and other crowd-control measures, and a Friday deadline for Bovino to wear a body camera after concerns over agents gassing a neighborhood during a children’s Halloween parade.
- Operation Midway Blitz is ongoing with more than 1,800 reported arrests, and Ellis has demanded all use‑of‑force reports since early September; Bovino still faces a deposition in the civil case brought by journalists, protesters and clergy.
- Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five others with impeding a federal officer over a Sept. 26 protest outside the Broadview ICE facility.
- The Justice Department argued the daily briefings would improperly disrupt executive enforcement, winning the temporary stay as plaintiffs were ordered to respond by Thursday, with related litigation over National Guard deployments continuing on a separate track.