Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at 12 of the 25 ICE field offices nationwide with Border Patrol officials who will take over immigration enforcement in those regions as President Trump demands more arrests. Meanwhile, Chicago continues to be a focus of the administration’s immigration crackdown. We speak with Hoan Huynh, an Illinois state representative, who was confronted by federal agents as he was filming them after getting alerted to their presence in his district by a rapid response network. The “officers came to the passenger window of the car that I was in and pointed a gun to my head,” he says, calling the actions of federal agents in Chicago “unconstitutional.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at 12 of the 25 ICE field offices nationwide with Border Patrol officials, who will take over immigration enforcement in those regions as Trump demands more arrests. The move comes as Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino was questioned by a federal judge in Chicago Tuesday, after she said he and other federal agents have violated her court order that limits the use of force in immigration raids and protests across Chicago. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino to meet daily with her until a November 5th hearing and to turn over all reports of agents’ use of force and body-camera footage
CBS Chicago correspondent Nicole Sganga interviewed Bovino last week.
They had been cornering a neighbor of mine right up against this fence. And as soon as they heard me yelling that Migra was here, and calling attention to them, they turned around in front of me and started walking quickly north on Sawyer. And as I started walking up Sawyer, I noticed immediately people coming out of their houses. There were people who were young and old. All sorts of people came out and started yelling, trying to get them out of our neighborhood.
People came out of their houses to defend the community, to observe, to film, to take photographs of license plates, started calling other community members. And before you knew it, we had probably around 20 people. We had created so much noise and called so much attention to these agents trying to terrorize our community, that all of the traffic on Wilson was backed up. And CBP at that point dropped two gas bombs right onto the street, and people fled, because it looked like a war zone, and it felt like a war zone. But we were able to stand up, defend ourselves, and stand up for the dignity of every single person who lives in this area
That’s Chicago resident Gabe Paez. He’s with the Chicago Teachers Union, wearing a T-shirt that says “proud public educator.”
In another encounter, federal agents surrounded Democratic Illinois state Representative Hoan Huynh last Tuesday in Chicago’s North Side. Huynh represents the area, was monitoring the agents after he got a tip through a rapid response network. He shared this video.
