“The Border Patrol has deployed agents and resources to Chicago and Portland to assist ICE with their operations,” a Border Patrol official authorized to speak with the media wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner. “For the potential shutdown — Yes, Border Patrol agents are essential and will continue to work at the border and in Chicago/Portland in support of ICE operations.”

Late last week, Border Patrol sent an unspecified number of agents to Chicago and Portland due to violence outside ICE facilities after a mass shooting that killed one detainee and injured two others in Dallas last week.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Sept. 26 that Justice Department law enforcement would be dispatched to assist and prevent violence, such as vandalism and arson at facilities, and attacks against employees.

The Department of Homeland Security has also raced to expand security at all ICE facilities nationwide.

A DHS spokeswoman told the Washington Examiner that the federal department would not tolerate targeted violence against its law enforcement personnel and has begun to put a plan into place to beef up security at and around ICE field offices and detention sites from coast to coast.

Nationwide, ICE has 122 detention facilities that it uses to hold illegal immigrants who are in custody and going through deportation proceedings in court, as well as more than 150 offices.

On Sunday, at least four people were arrested and now face federal criminal charges for involvement in violence targeting ICE’s detention center in Chicago.

Border Patrol agents were spotted over the weekend in Chicago, walking downtown on Michigan Avenue.

Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) maintained in a recent press conference that “none of what [President] Trump is doing is making Illinois safer.”

Statistics from ICE revealed that federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 550 criminals in Chicago who were illegal immigrants since January.

DHS WILL IMMEDIATELY BEGIN INCREASING SECURITY AT ALL ICE FACILITIES: MCLAUGHLIN

Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on Sept. 27 that he had directed the National Guard to send soldiers into Portland to shield an ICE facility from attacks from violent protesters.

Hundreds of protesters showed up at an ICE facility in Portland Sunday afternoon, where Border Patrol agents were on site to assist their federal counterparts with perimeter security.