« on: October 28, 2025, 04:05:43 pm »
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/border-patrol-bovino-tear-gas-use-chicago-ellis-questioning-rcna240036U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, who appeared in federal court on Tuesday sporting his trademark dark green uniform and crew cut, seems likely to become a regular presence there.
U.S. District Court judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino, the Border Patrol sector chief overseeing the agency’s operations in Chicago and previously in Los Angeles, to appear in federal court each weekday at 6 p.m. to report on daily immigration operations. She also ordered that he turn over all agents’ use of force reports from Sept. 2 through Oct. 25, as well as the bodycam footage corresponding to those reports, by Friday.
The exchange highlights the mounting tensions between immigration officials and residents across the Chicago area, particularly after Bovino and immigration agents were captured on video and in photos deploying chemical agents in numerous residential neighborhoods. Attorneys argued the actions were in violation of Ellis’ temporary restraining order issued on Oct. 6 which said immigration authorities must curb the use of tear gas and chemical agents when they are not under threat, especially where the general public could be affected.
In that order Ellis also instructed immigration agents to wear — and turn on — their body cameras.
That led to one of Tuesday’s most revealing questions: Did Bovino, as the head of the operation in Chicago, have a body camera on the day he was recorded?
“I do not, ma’am, no,” he replied. Nor did he have training, he said. On body cameras, Bovino said he did not know how many of his 201 agents in Chicago did not have them, but that he believed 99% did have them. Bovino committed to getting his agents equipped.
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For the life of me I can't understand why the DOJ and DHS is allowing this judge to play this silly game with ICE/CBP...these orders amount to daily harassment and are meant to impede immigration enforcement. I don't get it...
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