Appeals court blocks judge order for Border Patrol Chicago briefings
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Department of Homeland Security celebrates victory after “pause of judicial overreach.”
An appeals court on Wednesday blocked a ruling issued Tuesday that would have required a top Border Patrol official to give unprecedented daily briefings to a judge about immigration sweeps in Chicago.
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered the hearings after weeks of tense encounters and increasingly aggressive tactics by government agents working on Operation Midway Blitz, resulting in more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force.
While Bovino told Fox News earlier Wednesday that he wanted to speak with Ellis, government lawyers were also objecting to the decision, calling it “extraordinarily destructive.”
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Protesters shout at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Trooper Gregory Bovino as he leaves federal court in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nam Y. Ha)
The Justice Department argued that “the order significantly interferes with the executive function of ensuring the proper enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws by interfering on a daily basis with a senior executive official who is critical to that mission.”
“We are thrilled that this act of judicial overreach has been stopped,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to The Associated Press. he said.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents arrive to escort U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Trooper Gregory Bovino from federal court in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nam Y. Ha)
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released footage on
Protesters shout at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Trooper Gregory Bovino as he leaves federal court in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (Nam Y. Ha)
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“VIDEO EVIDENCE,” DHS wrote in the post that included the video.
Last week, on October 22, three illegal immigrants and six U.S. citizens were arrested on charges in what DHS called “one of the most violent days” of Operation Midway Blitz.
Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
