The Chicago kidnappings have begun
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And now arresting police officers:
"Background checks performed by the FBI, Illinois State Police reveal no criminal history," Craig said. "If Officer Bojovic did not hold federal work authorization, he would not have been hired."
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President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to allow him to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, putting the explosive legal fight over his ability to use those troops on American soil before the justices for the first time.
The filing sets up a showdown over presidential power at a moment when the administration is attempting to deploy the National Guard to multiple US cities.
The emergency appeal follows a series of decisions from lower federal courts, temporarily blocking the administration’s efforts on the grounds that Trump vastly overstated the need for deploying the National Guard. On Thursday, the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals let stand an order temporarily blocking that effort.
Trump filed the appeal at the Supreme Court in a case involving his effort to deploy the guard to Chicago. In the appeal, the administration said that lower court order “improperly impinges on the president’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/supreme-court-national-guard-chicago
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Not only did U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino show his face in a federal courtroom Tuesday, he and a judge will be getting to know each other a lot better in the days to come.
That’s because U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said she wants to meet with the Border Patrol commander every weeknight over the next seven days, as federal agents continue their aggressive deportation campaign that’s stretched from Little Village to Lake View.
Their daily meeting around 6 p.m. will give the judge a chance to speak with Bovino about the events of the day.
And as they do so, Ellis will have in her back pocket a request that she fully ban the feds from using tear gas amid the immigration blitz. The judge said Tuesday that, if agents continue to deploy gas, “they’d better be able to back it up.”
“And if they can’t,” she added, “then they will lose that as something they can use.”
Tuesday’s hearing revealed that Bovino has no body-worn camera — nor the training to use one. Bovino admitted that fact, even after telling the judge that 99% of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents here have that technology.
The judge told him to find himself a body-worn camera by Friday, noting that he probably has “an in” with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“I’ve talked to her from time to time,” Bovino acknowledged.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/10/28/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-federal-court
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On the North Shore.
Martin said the group chat has a segment they call a rapid response team, of which she is a part, and the team’s goal is to respond to the scene of an ICE sighting and warn community members while also letting the agents know they are unwanted.
“Because this is wrong,” she said. “You can have a conversation about whether immigrants need to be deported, but that’s not what this is about. If you’ve seen footage of them arresting U.S. citizens, breaking windows — there is no responsibility. Nothing is going to stop them except for us. So we have to stop them.”
She added, “There is fear in the air, and everybody should stand up. Nobody should feel that way.”
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In my town. I figured this would happen eventually. Not sure what part of town this occurred in.
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Activity in surrounding towns is ramping up.
And then there's this:
Border Patrol agent 'bragged' about shooting woman in Brighton Park, defense attorney says
Testimony from the agent who shot a woman multiple times in an immigration enforcement action revealed how he touted his marksmanship in leaving seven wounds despite firing five bullets. He later texted fellow agents, “Put that in your book boys.”
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A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying top government officials lied in their testimony about threats that protesters posed and that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”
“I find the government’s evidence to be simply not credible,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said in an oral ruling from the bench, describing a litany of incidents over the past month and a half where citizens were tear-gassed “indiscriminately,” beaten and tackled by agents and struck in the face with pepper spray balls.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/operation-midway-blitz-injunction/
