Tag: Gregory Bovino

Border Patrol Chief Praised Agent Who Shot Unarmed Woman Five Times

“What’s happening in Minnesota is wrong,” Ruohonen said, citing the Bill of Rights and his 28 years of experience as an attorney. “There’s no shades of gray. It’s clear. “I really love what’s been happening there now, with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity, and respect for others that they don’t know, […]

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Donald Trump Is Frightened

So let’s stipulate some threshold questions: Will any of this change how ICE is actually conducting its operations in American cities that fundamentally do not want ICE’s presence among their populations? Is Trump reversing the underlying reality of these operations—that they have become akin to military occupations of enemy territory within the American nation? Will […]

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Did Trump Send Tom Homan to Minnesota Because Fox News Begged Him?

He added that he believes the White House is “working on a game plan” to help federal agents “go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people, but without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they […]

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Is This Why Trump Decided to Send Tom Homan to Minnesota?

He added that he believes the White House is “working on a game plan” to help federal agents “go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people, but without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they […]

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It Sure Looks Like This Is the End of the Road for CBP Chief

He added that he believes the White House is “working on a game plan” to help federal agents “go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people, but without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they […]

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It Sure Looks Like Minnesota Is the End of the Road for CBP Chief

He added that he believes the White House is “working on a game plan” to help federal agents “go about their job in a more structured way to make sure that they are going to be able to remove these people, but without causing all the kinds of problems and fighting in communities that they […]

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Karoline Leavitt Appears to Throw CBP Chief Under the Bus on Minnesota

“Let me be blunt. If you blink in Minneapolis, they’re gonna overwhelm you, and they’re gonna win. You cannot blink in Minneapolis. That is one of the festering sores of this country, and that’s where they all come together…. You have to lance the boil there,” Bannon said, calling for even more targeted militance from […]

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Trump Administration Scrambles To Blame Alex Pretti For His Own Death, Undermining 2nd Amendment In The Process

Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty It’s quite possible that the Trump administration has finally flown too close to the sun, regarding its latest narrative of observably false propaganda against the latest victim of a killing by immigration cops in Minnesota. When 37-year-old Alex Pretti was gunned down by ICE agents while trying to protect a […]

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CBP Boss Says He Moved Agents Who Shot Alex Pretti to Avoid “Doxxing”

“Let me be blunt. If you blink in Minneapolis, they’re gonna overwhelm you, and they’re gonna win. You cannot blink in Minneapolis. That is one of the festering sores of this country, and that’s where they all come together…. You have to lance the boil there,” Bannon said, calling for even more targeted militance from […]

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CBP Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti Are Already Terrorizing a New City

“Let me be blunt. If you blink in Minneapolis, they’re gonna overwhelm you, and they’re gonna win. You cannot blink in Minneapolis. That is one of the festering sores of this country, and that’s where they all come together…. You have to lance the boil there,” Bannon said, calling for even more targeted militance from […]

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CBP Chief Insists His Goons Are the Real Victims in Minnesota Shooting

“If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, OK, if the mayor and governor are going put our ICE officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more innocent lives, or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide: Do we want to continue to […]

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CBP Chief Insists They’re the Real Victims of Minnesota Shooting

“If I were President Trump, I would almost think about, OK, if the mayor and governor are going put our ICE officials in harm’s way and there’s a chance of losing more innocent lives, or whatever, then maybe go to another city and let the people of Minneapolis decide: Do we want to continue to […]

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CBP Chief Brags They’re “Experts” in Detaining Small Children

Just hours after Bovino recounted his dystopian, rather than feel-good, story about detained children, another report emerged that immigration agents had grabbed a child. ICE detained a family of three, including a seven-year-old girl, outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, last week. The girl’s parents had been rushing her to emergency medical care after she […]

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CBP Chief Insists Minneapolis Loves Him as City Goes on General Strike

But the board’s charter, as circulated to dozens of nations last week, makes little mention of Gaza. Instead, its goals appear to be as lofty as they are broad, seeking to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” The concept came under new scrutiny […]

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CBP Chief Makes Delusional Claim About Minnesota Ahead of Mass Strike

But the board’s charter, as circulated to dozens of nations last week, makes little mention of Gaza. Instead, its goals appear to be as lofty as they are broad, seeking to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.” The concept came under new scrutiny […]

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DHS Whines That Protesters Won’t Let Federal Agents Use Any Bathrooms

Countries that have agreed to join the board instead include Argentina, Belarus, Egypt, Jordan, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. The “Board of Peace” idea emerged from the Gaza “ceasefire”—an agreement that has been broken countless times, as at least 11 Palestinians, including two children and […]

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CBP Chief and His Goons Shamed Out of Minnesota Gas Station

Last week, Trump had threatened to impose tariffs against European countries that opposed his plan to annex Greenland. He may have been persuaded otherwise after European pension funds began divesting from U.S. Treasuries and the European Parliament suspended a possible trade deal with the U.S. Wednesday over his threats. Despite Trump’s post Wednesday, his dream […]

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Trump Escalates Immigration ‘Crackdown’ In Minnesota With 2,000 More ICE Agents

Source: Star Tribune via Getty Images / Getty The Trump administration never misses a beat when it comes to turning its seething xenophobia and white nationalist bigotry into policy and action, and it will exploit any current event it can to justify doing so. So, it should surprise absolutely no one that the fraud scandal in […]

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Top Immigration Official Admits They’re Arresting U.S. Citizens

“As far as American citizens, the vast majority of American citizens, especially that the U.S. Border patrol has arrested, many of those citizens assaulted federal officers, assaulted border patrol agents, in the performance of our duties,” Bovino said. “Anyone that assaults a federal officer, you’re gonna go to jail.” The Homeland Security Department released a […]

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Border Patrol Chief Admits They’re Arresting U.S. Citizens

“As far as American citizens, the vast majority of American citizens, especially that the U.S. Border patrol has arrested, many of those citizens assaulted federal officers, assaulted border patrol agents, in the performance of our duties,” Bovino said. “Anyone that assaults a federal officer, you’re gonna go to jail.” The Homeland Security Department released a […]

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Prosecuting ICE’s Goons Will Be Hard—but Not Impossible

However, District Judge Jack Zouhary ruled that Files could be prosecuted because the immunity extended only to functions “necessary and proper” for officers to undertake their duties, and Files could not credibly claim that trapping a neighbor’s dog in a clearly personal dispute fit the bill, even if he personally felt that the dog was […]

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Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance

ICE has also turned on those residents who dare document and track them across the city. On October 20, reported The TRiiBE, a local independent news site, an attorney named Scott Sakiyama, who had been following immigration agents in his car, was detained by them at gunpoint. Sakiyama had defended a man who had faced […]

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DHS Announces ‘Operation Catahoula Crunch,’ The Trump Administration’s Immigration Crackdown In New Orleans

Bovino has history of violating court orders and lying about protest violence. Administration claims crackdown targets ‘violent criminals’, despite most detainees having no criminal records. Protests and accusations of police brutality are expected, but government will likely side with agents. Source: Ryan Murphy / Getty Welp, the Trump administration’s massive (and massively oppressive) immigration crackdown […]

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Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”

The order banned citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from traveling to the U.S. It also placed restrictions on travel for citizens of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. At the time, people from all of those countries who […]

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Explosive Testimony Exposes How Far Border Patrol Chief Will Go to Lie

Justice served two terms as West Virginia’s governor, being elected as a Democrat in 2016 before switching parties the next year. After serving two terms, he was elected U.S. senator for West Virginia in 2024. He made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the sale of coal mines in 2009, vaulting him to […]

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Operation Charlotte’s Web: Everything We Know About The Immigration Crackdown In North Carolina

Source: Ryan Murphy / Getty On Nov. 15, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new enforcement mission in North Carolina: Operation Charlotte’s Web. According to a press release issued Saturday, the mass-deportation initiative will target criminal undocumented immigrants who allegedly migrated to the Tar Heel State because they “knew sanctuary politicians would protect […]

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Trump’s Border Patrol Boss Asks Random Brown Man if He Speaks English

The United States, of course, is a “nation of immigrants.” That’s not a lie. No American citizen, with the exception of Native Americans, has a family history that does not involve some form of immigration to the United States.  The phrase “a nation of immigrants” was popularized as the title of President John F. Kennedy’s […]

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CBP Head Finally Leaves Chicago—and Issues Dark Warning of What’s Next

The signees make a point to note that Israel’s genocide has been largely bankrolled by the U.S. government and the American taxpayer, stating that “the United States provided an estimated $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel, and during that same period, the White House authorized or notified over $30,000,000,000 in additional new arms sales agreements […]

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CBP Chief Leaves Chicago After Judge Says He Can’t Attack Protesters

The signees make a point to note that Israel’s genocide has been largely bankrolled by the U.S. government and the American taxpayer, stating that “the United States provided an estimated $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel, and during that same period, the White House authorized or notified over $30,000,000,000 in additional new arms sales agreements […]

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Investigative Report: No Evidence Criminal Gang Members Were Arrested During Midnight Chicago ICE Raid

Source: Jamie Kelter Davis / Getty The more we learn and observe about “Operation Midway Blitz” — the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown operation in Chicago that was purported to target violent criminals, including suspected members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organization — the more it appears the whole thing is a ploy to terrorize […]

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Border Patrol Agents Accused Of Pepper-Spraying 1-Year-Old Baby In Chicago

Source: Anadolu / Getty It seems like not a single day goes by without a fresh story about ICE and/or Border Patrol agents in Chicago being absolute menaces to the communities they and the Trump administration claim they are protecting and serving by ridding them of the worst of the worst of “criminal illegal aliens.” And […]

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