{"id":22039,"date":"2025-10-30T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22039\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:07:07","slug":"appeals-court-blocks-order-demanding-border-patrol-provide-daily-updates-on-chicago-immigration-enforcement-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22039\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court blocks order demanding Border Patrol provide daily updates on Chicago immigration enforcement operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge\u2019s order requiring Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino<\/a> to provide daily, in-person updates on immigration enforcement activities in Chicago.<\/p>\n

District Judge Sara Ellis, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, had ordered Bovino on Tuesday to appear in person at Northern Illinois District court every weekday at 5:45 p.m. to brief the court on \u201cOperation Midway Blitz.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Bovino is leading the Trump administration\u2019s immigration enforcement operations in Chicago. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ellis\u2019 demand was part of a broader order that required US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to provide all use of force reports and body-camera footage<\/a> since September, amid concerns over federal law enforcement\u2019s response to anti-immigration enforcement protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The judge issued her strict order after expressing concerns that a previous temporary restraining order barring federal immigration agents from using chemical agents, such as tear gas or pepper spray, on protesters, clergy and journalists wasn\u2019t being followed.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department appealed Ellis\u2019 order to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals just hours before Bovino was scheduled to check in with the Northern Illinois District court for the first time.<\/p>\n

The DOJ argued that forcing Bovino, who is leading the Trump administration\u2019s operation in Chicago, to show up to court everyday would \u201csignificantly\u201d disrupt immigration enforcement operations in the Windy City.<\/p>\n

Ellis had ordered Bovino to provide daily in-person updates to the court. University of Chicago Law School<\/p>\n

\u201cThe order significantly interferes with the quintessentially executive function of ensuring the Nation\u2019s immigration laws are properly enforced by waylaying a senior executive official critical to that mission on a daily basis,\u201d DOJ lawyers wrote in court filing.<\/p>\n

Ellis\u2019 order \u201conly underscores the extent to which the district court has exceeded its judicial role by arrogating to itself the role of supervising and micromanaging the day-to-day operations of an Executive Branch law-enforcement agency,\u201d the filing continued.<\/p>\n

Bovino, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the DHS chief\u2019s de facto chief of staff Corey Lewandowski have reportedly pushed for a broader and more aggressive approach<\/a> to immigration enforcement, targeting anyone in the US illegally to boost deportation numbers.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration argued that Ellis\u2019 order would be too disruptive and that the judge exceeded her authority.<\/p>\n

Last month, Bovino said the surge in federal law enforcement in Chicago was aimed at nabbing \u201cthe worst of the worst\u201d illegal immigrants with criminal records.<\/p>\n

CBP agents have made about 1,500 arrests in the Chicago area since Sept. 16, according to internal DHS statistics, obtained by CBS News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The same figures show Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have made roughly 1,400 arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily paused a judge\u2019s order requiring Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8287,419,9207,153,2301,9,11,10,87,14665,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-22039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-deportation","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-us-customs-and-border-protection","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}