Overview

• DHS says a driver rammed a Border Patrol vehicle on Chicago’s Southeast Side before agents used a precision immobilization technique to stop the car and took two people into custody.
• Chicago police reported that a crowd formed and threw objects as federal agents prepared to leave, prompting agents to deploy tear gas that also exposed 13 CPD members.
• A senior DHS source identified the detainees as Luis Gerardo Pirela-Ramirez and Yonder Enrique Tenefe-Perez from Venezuela, a detail reported by Fox News and not formally confirmed by DHS in public statements.
• Attorneys and witnesses allege at least one detained person was a U.S. teenager held for hours without contacting family, with accounts differing on the teen’s age and key details still under review.
• The incident unfolded during the ongoing Operation Midway Blitz enforcement surge, as a judge recently ordered removal of fencing at the Broadview ICE site and temporarily blocked a planned deployment of soldiers in Illinois.