Judge orders daily meetings with Border Patrol official Bovino on Chicago immigration crackdown
Source: WRAL and Associated Press
By CHRISTINE FERNANDO , Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area during a weekslong enforcement campaign...
She also noted the sudden deployment of tear gas during a weekend Halloween event.
“Children at a Halloween parade do not pose an immediate threat to a law enforcement officer,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis said. "And you cannot use riot control weapons against them.”
Wearing a green uniform, Bovino settled into the witness chair in federal court in Chicago. He is chief of the Border Patrol sector in El Centro, California, one of nine sectors on the Mexican border, and has become the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns in America’s big cities.
The hearing is the latest in a lawsuit by news outlets and protesters who say agents have used excessive force, including tear gas, during demonstrations against immigration sweeps in the Chicago area...
She wants to hear about agents’ use of force in Little Village, Chicago’s Mexican enclave. During an enforcement operation there and in an adjacent suburb, Cicero, at least eight people, including four U.S. citizens, were detained before protesters gathered at the scene, officials said.
Attorneys representing a coalition of news outlets and protesters claim Bovino violated the order in Little Village, and they filed an image of him allegedly “throwing tear gas into a crowd without justification.”
Read more: https://www.wral.com/story/border-patrol-official-bovino-due-in-court-to-answer-questions-about-chicago-immigration-crackdown/22218829/
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On another interesting note, here's a notice of a no-fly drone zone over Chicago, because the "war" must be kept secret from aerial surveillance by state authorities...
https://www.twz.com/air/massive-drone-no-fly-zone-imposed-over-greater-chicago-area
... On Tuesday, President Donald Trump suggested responding to protests in Chicago and elsewhere would be a good way to prepare troops for combat.
“…we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military ... because we’re going into Chicago very soon,” Trump told a room full of admirals and generals gathered at Marine Base Quantico...
“The Chicago TFR is the exact scenario First Amendment advocates warned about: government using airspace restrictions to prevent documentation of controversial operations in public spaces,” Kesteloo, who is also a drone journalist, told us. “Combined with the 5th Circuit’s ruling that drone operation isn’t expressive conduct, we’re seeing the emergence of a legal framework where federal agencies can effectively control visual journalism by controlling airspace.”
