Appeals Court Halts Daily Chicago Check-Ins for Border Chief

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Department of Justice’s request to pause a lower-court order requiring the leader of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz immigration-enforcement effort in Chicago to check in daily with a federal judge.

The appellate court’s decision came less than two hours before Greg Bovino, commander in charge of U.S. Border Patrol, was to meet with U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

Ellis had ordered him Tuesday to appear each day “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public during the enforcement campaign.

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