'Why Not Just Arrest the Protestors? CBP and ICE Officials Muse'
"It’s been a journey with Greg Bovino over the past few months."
"We’ve learned a lot: He dislikes protestors. He likes 'state instruments of hard power.' And, per a recent deposition video taken in a Chicago case, he takes his orders directly from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem."
"Bovino has spent the past year rocketing up the Trump administration’s publicity rankings, going from an obscure posting along the U.S.-Mexico border to one of the most visible hype men for a mass deportation campaign. Under Bovino’s lead, in California and in Chicago, these operations have trained their focus on intimidating the residents of largely liberal cities. That’s meant staging high-profile operations like a Black Hawk helicopter raid on a South Side Chicago apartment building and detaining citizens who have protested their tactics."
"Those detentions have been followed by several prosecutions that have crumbled after making contact with skeptical judges. But in fragments of a deposition, court filings this week, and recent public statements, Bovino and senior ICE officials discussed how simple they would like to make things: why not just investigate and arrest the protestors?"
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