The show of force highlighted President Donald Trump’s unprecedented use of Border Patrol agents as a surge force in major cities, rerouting personnel who would normally be tasked with guarding America’s borders with Mexico and Canada. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which includes Border Patrol, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Naudelys’ account of the raid. Border Patrol – staffed with some 19,000 agents and under less pressure with border apprehensions at historic lows – has increasingly taken on a new role in major cities, led by Gregory Bovino, the agency’s commander-at-large. A viral video this week showed masked and armed Border Patrol agents chasing a man on an e-bike in downtown Chicago after he taunted them and said he was not a U.S. citizen. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, criticized the deployment of armed Border Patrol agents and other personnel to the city, calling it “authoritarianism” at a press conference on Monday.