The Border Patrol’s Blueprint for American Cities

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.

By Hamed Aleaziz, Jeremy Raff, Laura Bult, Thomas Vollkommer, Nick Hughes and Stephanie Swart

October 18, 2025