<p>The Trump administration has set its sights on Charlotte for its next round of immigration sweeps, The Daily Wire has learned.</p>
<p>Federal law enforcement sources said some Border Patrol agents already in Chicago for the Department of Homeland Security’s “Operation Midway Blitz” raids may be heading to Charlotte, North Carolina, as early as this week.</p>
<p>Border Patrol chief for California’s El Centro sector, Gregory Bovino, will also head to Charlotte, sources said. He will later go on to New Orleans, according to <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/border-patrol-gregory-bovino-charlotte-new-orleans/">NewsNation</a>.</p>
<p>Last month, Bovino <a href="https://x.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1978287901411533094">posted on X</a>, “We’ll put Charlotte on the list!!!” in response to a request that the feds deploy there.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, Bovino wrote, “Crime way down in Chicago thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership. This is Homeland Security in action.”</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Crime way down in Chicago thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem&#8217;s leadership. This is Homeland Security in action. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/midwayblitz?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#midwayblitz</a> <a href="https://t.co/T8Awye13fx">https://t.co/T8Awye13fx</a></p>
<p>— Commander Op At Large CA Gregory K. Bovino (@CMDROpAtLargeCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMDROpAtLargeCA/status/1988581623005323631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>DHS didn’t confirm or deny the plans in a statement shared with The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>“Every day, DHS enforces the laws of the nation across the country. We do not discuss future or potential operations,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said.</p>
<p>The Trump administration deployed more than 200 border agents to the Windy City last month to help speed up their nationwide mass deportation effort, according to CBS News.</p>
<p>And sanctuary leaders were quick to condemn the deployment.</p>
<p>“The people of Chicago have deserved better than having CBP and Greg Bovino in this city,” Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said during a press conference on Wednesday.</p>
<p>“We’ll have to continue to protect our neighbors and our friends and our families, and I will work very hard to continue to do that to keep people safe,” he added.</p>
<p>Tensions have remained high in Chicago, with anti-ICE agitators trying to block agents from making arrests and cartels placing hefty bounties on the heads of the feds.</p>

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<p>An illegal immigrant who was working as a police officer in Illinois was released from federal detention last month.</p>
<p>An immigration judge granted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-arrests-illegal-immigrant-employed-as-a-cop-in-sanctuary-state">Radule Bojovic</a>, a 25-year-old illegal immigrant from Montenegro, a $2,500 immigration bond just two weeks after he was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/hanover-park-police-officer-radule-bojovic-released-immigration-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News. His deportation case, however, is still ongoing.</p>
<p>Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to leave the United States on March 31, 2015, the Department of Homeland Security <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/16/governor-jb-pritzkers-illinois-illegal-alien-working-sworn-police-office-badge-gun" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time of his arrest. All the while, Bojovic was working as a police officer with the Hanover Park Police Department.</p>
<p>During his arrest, Bojovic <a href="https://x.com/BenBergquam/status/1978879958698332249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Real America’s Voice reporter Ben Bergquam that he was authorized to carry a firearm while on duty. He also claimed to have a permit to work in the United States.</p>
<p>Bojovic was also approved by the Pension Fund Board of Trustees in January 2025 and was eligible to receive a starting salary of $78,955.70, according to DHS. His 2025 earnings were $205,707, including $9,276 for FICA/Medicare taxes.</p>
<p>DHS blamed Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker&#8217;s sanctuary policies for allowing the illegal immigrant to serve as a cop.</p>
<p>“Governor J.B. Pritzker doesn’t just allow violent illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows illegal aliens to work as sworn police officers,&#8221; Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. &#8220;Radule Bojovic violated our nation’s laws and was living ILLEGALLY in the United States for 10 years — what kind of police department gives criminal illegal aliens badges and guns? It’s a felony for aliens to even possess a firearm. A so-called law enforcement officer who is actively breaking the law.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem ICE is restoring law and order. Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces,” McLaughlin added.</p>
<p>The Hanover Police Department previously said that they confirmed that Bojovic &#8220;was legally authorized by the federal government to work in the United States&#8221; before hiring him.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the time of his hire, Officer Bojovic presented the Village with a Work Authorization Card, which was issued by the federal government’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The card was valid and recently renewed. We also conducted a full background check, including his criminal history with both the Illinois State Police and the FBI,&#8221; the agency said when Bojovic was caught.</p>
<p>&#8220;Further, the Village also confirmed, based on a memorandum issued by the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives on January 5, 2024, that his immigration status allowed him to carry a firearm while on duty,&#8221; they added.</p>
<p>The Trump administration commenced &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz&#8221; in September to clean the streets of illegal immigrants across the state of Illinois.</p>
<p>Anti-ICE agitators, and even cartels, have tried to threaten and block federal agents carrying out the operations.</p>
<p>Border Patrol agents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-violence-must-end-man-opens-fire-on-border-patrol-agents-in-chicago-chaos-erupts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were shot at</a> on Saturday while carrying out raids in Chicago&#8217;s Little Village neighborhood, which is largely populated with immigrants.</p>
<p>The shooter fled the scene and one suspect was later arrested. It is not clear, however, if the suspect in custody was the shooter.</p>

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<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the state’s largest county for allegedly spending $1.3 million in taxpayer funding to help illegal immigrants fight deportation.</p>
<p>In October, the Harris County Commissioners Court <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Petition_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocated</a> the money to “radical leftist organizations” BakerRipley, the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, Justice for All Immigrants, KIND, Inc., and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services to provide “direct legal representation to immigrants in detention or facing the threat of deportation,” according to Paxton’s office.</p>
<p>“We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration,” said Attorney General Paxton, who is now running for Senate against incumbent John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt.</p>
<p>“Beyond just being blatantly unconstitutional, this is evil and wicked. Millions upon millions of illegals invaded America during the last administration, and they must be sent back to where they came from,” he added.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨BREAKING: I&#8217;m suing Harris County for unlawfully directing over $1.3 million in taxpayer money to defend illegal aliens from deportation.</p>
<p>We must stop the left-wing radicals who are robbing Texans to prevent illegals from being deported by the Trump Administration. <a href="https://t.co/Yqp0v9Nt0P">pic.twitter.com/Yqp0v9Nt0P</a></p>
<p>— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1988274620148183111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Paxton argued that the disbursement serves “no public purpose” and is “unconstitutional.”</p>
<p>“The Texas Constitution prohibits governmental entities like Harris County from misusing public funds by giving gifts or conferring private benefits to individuals and groups that do not serve a legitimate public end,” Paxton’s office said.</p>
<p>Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee defended the program, which was renewed last month in a 4-1 vote, with Tom Ramsey, the only Republican on the court, opposing it, <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/paxton-lawsuit-says-harris-county-defended-illegal-immigrants-taxpayer-money/285-9305f238-95d4-4e93-810a-4a0c963ce2f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to KHOU.</p>
<p>“This lawsuit is a cheap political stunt,” Menefee said. “At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to terrorize immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens, and trample the law, it’s shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans.”</p>
<p>“This program is perfectly legal, and it ensures that people in our communities have access to due process, something every American should support,” Menefee said. “My office will fight back and defend Harris County’s right to lead with fairness, compassion, and common sense, no matter how many times Republican state officials try to erase that.”</p>

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<p>The United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence with the United States on drug boats in the Caribbean to stay out of major counter-narcotics strikes in the region.</p>
<p>While controlling multiple territories in the Caribbean, the U.K. has long helped the U.S. interdict drug smugglers in the open sea, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us">reported</a>. But as the mission becomes more lethal, the U.K. no longer wants to be involved.</p>
<p>The intelligence blackout began over a month ago.</p>
<p>The Department of War has launched more than a dozen strikes on boats, killing 76 people.</p>
<p>Believing that the strikes violated international law, the U.K. started to worry that its intelligence was helping the U.S. locate the vessels before obliterating them.</p>
<p>Trump administration officials have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DepartmentofWar/videos/4345830319036573/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the strikes, saying the drug traffickers are “operating under the control” of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.</p>
<p>Some legal experts, however, have questioned President Donald Trump&#8217;s authority to act on the threats without congressional approval.</p>
<p>Brian Finucane, a former State Department legal adviser, recently told The Daily Wire that “the strikes are not legal” and lack justification.</p>
<p>“The precedent that this administration seems to be invoking are strikes the U.S. has taken over the course of the last 20-plus years in the context of the U.S. war on terror against groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS,” he said. “But those precedents are really irrelevant and a red herring with respect to the strikes we’re seeing in the Caribbean and now the Pacific.”</p>
<p>“For the first time, the U.S. government designated criminal entities, drug trafficking organizations as foreign terrorist organizations,” he explained. “But those assertions seem to be undermined by the U.S. Intelligence community.”</p>
<p>Dr. Nicholas Creel, law professor at Georgia College and State University, believes the strikes are legal, pointing to roughly five out of 30 examples of “instances where we moved first and somebody died” where the president actually received congressional approval.</p>
<p>“What a lot of people lose in this is if we do agree that the president has the authority to respond to attacks, who is it that gets to define an attack is? It has to be the president,” Creel said. “It necessarily cannot be Congress.”</p>
<p>“That’s why we chose this word to give the president the authority to respond to these attacks so it has to be that decides what this attack is. And if you or I think this is not an attack, fine, but we’re not the president.”</p>
<p>He continued: “Pretty much every president since FDR would have to have been said to have acted unconstitutionally in terms of the war powers, which seems a bit odd. If it’s that common a practice, is it really, I mean, just because people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s legal, but at the same time, if everybody is basically doing it? Is it really illegal?”</p>

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<p>A federal judge will soon decide whether to release hundreds of illegal immigrants nabbed in Chicago immigration raids.</p>
<p>U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings is expected to hold a hearing Wednesday that could result in an order forcing federal immigration agents to release the detainees with ankle monitors or other tracking devices, <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-news-judge-considers-releasing-hundreds-arrested-immigration-operation-midway-blitz/18140683/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC7.</p>
<p>Immigration advocates at the National Immigrant Justice Center have argued that the feds violated a consent decree in Illinois when they arrested the targets.</p>
<p>Cummings ruled last month that agents violated a previous consent decree when making warrantless arrests in Chicago.</p>
<p>ICE had agreed that when they make a warrantless arrest, they must determine whether there is probable cause leading them to believe the person is in the United States illegally and if they are a flight risk.</p>
<p>The agency has the authority to make warrantless arrests, a standard practice of the agency nationwide that already has some restrictions.</p>
<p>One of the illegal immigrants who could be released is Colombian national Diana Patricia Santillana Galeano, who caused a stir after she fled a traffic stop and ran into a daycare to hide from federal agents in Chicago.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts.</p>
<p>ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.</p>
<p>Here is the real story:</p>
<p>Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female… <a href="https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC">https://t.co/a5BdcbhnwC</a></p>
<p>— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1986171260464742835?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Democratic Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley shared a video of the arrest, falsely accusing ICE of snatching “a preschool teacher without a warrant IN FRONT OF CHILDREN in my district.”</p>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security quickly corrected the record.</p>
<p>“Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts,” the agency wrote on X.</p>
<p>“ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside,” they added.</p>
<p>Galeano crossed the border in 2023, while her children were smuggled in just last month.</p>
<p>During her arrest, she tried to lie about her identity and denied that she knew the male driver in her car, saying she “just picked him up from a bus stop,” DHS said.</p>

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<p>In honor of the late Katie Abraham, who was killed at the age of 20 by an illegal immigrant drunk driver, the Department of Homeland Security has nabbed multiple illegal immigrants roaming the sanctuary state after being charged with DUIs as part of its mass deportation campaign, the agency told The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>These illegal immigrants found refuge in the sanctuary state of Illinois for years, and now Homeland Security officials are putting a stop to that. For years, the accused illegal immigrants roamed the state with impunity as local authorities let them go free. But the free-for-all has ended.</p>
<p>Last month, the feds nabbed Benito Hernandez Ibarra, a previously deported criminal from Mexico who was convicted of multiple counts of DUI. Chicago authorities let Ibarra free in 2012, ignoring ICE&#8217;s detainer at the time.</p>
<p>Mexican illegal immigrant Javier Castillo Hernandez was also arrested after authorities in Cook County let him off on probation in 2004 after he was driving drunk.</p>
<p>Despite being convicted of aggravated DUI in Chicago nearly a decade ago, Ecuadorian citizen Oscar Sinchi was roaming the streets. The feds arrested him in September.</p>
<p>The Trump administration flooded Illinois with additional ICE officers and Border Patrol agents in September, commencing what they&#8217;ve dubbed &#8220;Operation Midway Blitz.&#8221; The raids were launched to honor Katie Abraham.</p>
<p>“Katie’s death was preventable. She was killed by a man, Julio Cucul Bol, who entered and remained in our country illegally,” Joe Abraham, Katie’s father, said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “He was using multiple aliases, exploiting gaps in an overwhelmed and disorganized immigration system. Illinois’ sanctuary law allowed this monster to roam free.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He should have been removed long before he could take my daughter’s life. It would be unjust and unreasonable to separate my family’s loss from the policies that failed us. We did everything right. We worked hard, obeyed the law, paid our taxes and trusted that government would protect us in return. That trust was broken. Our leaders — from the governor’s office on down — have not treated immigration as a matter of public safety or national security,&#8221; Abraham said.</p>

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