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The Guardian - US
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Robert Mackey

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago

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Gregory Bovino in Chicago on 28 October 2025. Photograph: Brian Cassella/TNS/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

A border patrol chief claimed on Saturday that his agents came under fire in Chicago while conducting immigration enforcement operations, just two days after a federal judge said that he had lied to her about having been struck by a rock during a previous confrontation with protesters in the city.

Gregory Bovino, the border patrol chief and frequent Fox News guest who has become the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, said on social media that his agents had been “shot at”, and subjected to “vehicular assaults, physical assaults, impeding, violent mobs, vehicular blockades”, for a number of hours.

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