By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN

(CNN) — Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, who led controversial immigration sweeps in Democratic-led cities, has told people he plans to retire at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

Bovino has not yet submitted the required retirement paperwork, leaving open the possibility that the plan may change.

Bovino was nearly three decades into his career with the US Border Patrol when he was plucked last year from his position as chief patrol agent of the agency’s El Centro sector in Southern California to lead the highly visible mass deployments of federal law enforcement in cities including Los Angeles; Chicago; Charlotte, North Carolina; New Orleans; and Minneapolis.

His conduct during the Chicago operation drew stern rebukes from a federal judge, who ruled that his descriptions of events weren’t supported by video evidence.

In January, following the shooting deaths of two US citizens in Minneapolis by federal agents, he returned to his border sector as White House border czar Tom Homan took charge in Minnesota.

Bovino’s expected departure also coincides with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s ouster. Bovino reported directly to Noem while he deployed around the country to helm the administration’s immigration crackdown, frustrating some veteran federal immigration authorities concerned over the aggressive tactics.

The administration has since adopted a more targeted approach, foregoing the broad immigration sweeps from the last year.

CNN reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.

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By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals, agreeing to hear arguments next month on an issue that has been central to the administration’s immigration agenda.

The decision came in a pair of emergency appeals involving 6,000 Syrians and some 350,000 Haitians who have lived in the US legally for years.

The court deferred a request from the administration to remove protections for those people now while it considers the bigger question of whether a president may end the temporary protections more broadly. That means the people at issue in the case will retain their legal protections for now.

The court’s argument calendar was already set for the term that will end in June and its unusual decision to hear arguments in the case in April likely underscored that several similar cases challenging the administration’s moves are pending in lower federal courts and likely would have eventually reached the high court anyway.

In the Syrian case, Trump filed the emergency appeal at the Supreme Court in February, urging the justices to allow his administration to end Temporary Protected Status for the Syrians. TPS allows people who arrived from certain countries at times of upheaval to temporarily live and work in the US legally. As part of a broader effort to curb immigration, Trump has sought to end the status for multiple groups.

The case involving TPS for Haitians arrived at the Supreme Court last week. That appeal from the administration followed a scathing ruling from a federal district court in Washington, DC, in February that blocked the administration from letting Temporary Protected Status expire for Haitian nationals.

The 6-3 conservative Supreme Court has granted the administration deference to cancel those designations in the past, including in a case involving Venezuelans with TPS status that the court decided in May. It reiterated that position in a second emergency ruling in October.

TPS recipients are vetted and are ineligible if they’ve been convicted of any felony or more than one misdemeanor in the US. The Homeland Security secretary has discretion to designate a country for TPS. Critics, including DHS officials, say the designations were never intended to be permanent.

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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch carrying 25 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit has been scheduled from Vandenberg SFB between 7:37 p.m. and 11:37 p.m. Monday, March 16, 2026.

A live webcast of the mission will begin about five minutes before liftoff and you can tune in to watch here or on SpaceX's X/Twitter account.

Following first-stage separation, the booster assigned to this mission will return to Earth to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship awaiting in the Pacific Ocean.

A depiction of that launch sequence is shown in the image below.

There is the potential for one or more sonic booms during the launch, but how far the sound will travel will depend on weather and other conditions at launch time.

This will be the 14th flight for the Falcon 9 on this mission which previously launched:  NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57, and nine prior Starlink missions.

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