An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.
Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, led federal agents in removing protesters from a driveway used to transport detained people to an immigration processing center in Broadview, Ill.
The U.S. Border Patrol is expanding its mission to major cities across America, and building a splashy social media campaign to promote it. We joined them in Chicago — hundreds of miles away from the nearest foreign border — to observe how the agency’s mission has changed.
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