Overview
- Homeland Security confirmed five detentions in Albany Park and five in Evanston and Skokie during the Oct. 31 enforcement push.
- Video from an Evanston collision scene at Oakton and Asbury shows agents striking a man on the ground as a crowd shouted at officers, with police later reporting three U.S. protesters arrested and pepper spray used.
- Reporters following the caravan observed pepper-ball rounds deployed in Albany Park after agents warned of tear gas, and Chicago police cleared the roadway to allow federal vehicles to leave.
- Journalists documented inconsistent agent identification and camera use, including an officer without a body camera and others with numerical patches or tape markings.
- Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino led the caravan, a U.S. citizen named Christopher Klim was handcuffed and then released in Edison Park, and local officials organized vigils and called for federal immigration agents to leave Evanston.