EXCLUSIVE — Border Patrol agents who deployed to Chicago to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest illegal immigrants in the sanctuary city are headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, as soon as this week, the Washington Examiner has learned.

Three sources familiar with the Border Patrol’s plans disclosed in text messages on Tuesday that a large swath of agents will head to Charlotte by the week’s end, as will Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol’s chief of the El Centro, California, region, and commander of the ICE operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.