FBI’s Patel defends Chicago immigration enforcement role amid resistance

EXCLUSIVE: While immigration control efforts from the Trump administration come up against continuous resistance to Chicago, FBI director Kash Patel, passionately defended the office of the office in Windy City, declaring to Fox News Digital that agents “simply do their job to protect the streets”.

Patel and deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche were on the ground, visiting the external office of Chicago on Tuesday morning and explaining why the FBI had “flexible its resources” to help the DHS.

“The environment here in Chicago needs a targeted effort, not only to eliminate violent crimes, but also to eliminate illegal foreigners who are linked to these violent crimes,” Patel in Fox News Digital. “And it is the result of years of failures in the policies of the previous administration which allowed so many illegal and so many criminal activities to perform here in Chicago, in the state of Illinois.”

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FBI director Kash Patel visited the FBI outside office in Chicago on October 7, 2025. (New fox)

Even if the immigration control is not an integral part of the FBI work, the Patel said that “each three -letter agency” from the Trump administration “is heading for the same mission”. He described the concerted campaign as a “pangouvermental approach”.

And Patel added that the mission goes far beyond immigration control and also affects the distribution of narcotics, government representatives who are suddenly targeted by death and agents whose life is in danger.

Patel welcomed the efforts of the officers serving in the Chicago police department, calling them “formidable partners” and claiming “that they do their job with us every day”. However, he established a striking contrast between the base and their bosses.

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But they report to elected leaders, “he said.” And I think it is our duty to denounce those who give priority to illegal immigrants and to crime rather than those they serve in the city that they are supposed to protect. So I’m going to call it as long as it takes. “

President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy national guard troops to protect federal officials and property in Chicago have already been sent to the courts.

The deputy prosecutor of the United States, Todd Blanche, and the director of the FBI, Kash Patel, spoke with Fox News Digital during their visit to Chicago. (Screenshot/Fox News Digital)

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But Blanche said it was clear that the guard was necessary to help clean the streets with a high crime of Chicago.

“I mean, at this stage, it is almost laughable, laughable that the government of the State rises and say: do not let the National Guard enter,” said Blanche. “I mean, they have access to the same television I have access. And of course, we need the National Guard.”