Overview
- Border Patrol at-large commander Gregory Bovino said on X that agents operating with ICE support will remain in Chicago "for years."
- Bovino posted a new video montage set to LL Cool J’s "Mama Said Knock You Out" highlighting arrests and promoting sustained enforcement in the city.
- Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot replied that his "day of reckoning is fast approaching," calling the actions by agents under his command unconstitutional and shameful.
- The Department of Homeland Security said it arrested Latin Kings member Juan Espinoza Martinez over an alleged plot to kill Bovino.
- Federal officials say arrests topped 800 in September and have since risen into the thousands, while earlier street clashes included incidents where chemical agents affected Chicago police officers.