Overview
- Trump posted on Truth Social to “CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST” for Chicago, citing crime in the city’s shopping district.
- Reporting indicates Commander Gregory Bovino is leaving within days and that Border Patrol and related federal teams are being redeployed as “Operation Midway Blitz” winds down.
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to lift lower-court limits on federalizing forces for law-enforcement use in Chicago.
- The administration says the Chicago enforcement campaign that began in early September led to more than 3,000 arrests.
- DHS detailed escalating confrontations, including shots fired at ICE agents and objects thrown at vehicles, while a family’s pepper-spray claim from a Cicero parking lot remains disputed by the department.