#Bovino previously served as Border Patrol's chief patrol agent in California's El Centro Sector along the border with Mexico, where he became known for highly produced social media videos promoting their work in the relatively remote area.
That campaign, which included canvassing neighborhoods & Home Depot parking lots for possible #immigration offenders, triggered a legal challenge over #RacialProfiling & led a federal judge to block the aggressive patrols in July. #SCOTUS earlier this month lifted the lower court's injunction, allowing the tactics to resume.
#DHS Secretary [dog killer] #KristiNoem said she was also in #Chicago on Tuesday.
"Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, & felony stalking," Noem posted.
#Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official who became an at-large commander under the #Trump admin, played a lead role in Trump's #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles.
The office of #Illinois Governor #JBPritzker criticized #Bovino's actions.
"As a federal law enforcement operation gets underway, they don't pick up the phone to call the Governor but do have the time to create a TikTok video showing off beautiful #Chicago scenery," Pritzker spox Matt Hill posted Tuesday.
"He's not a serious individual but a wannabe social media star."
Gregory #Bovino, #Trump’s US Customs & Border Control chief who played a prominent role in a deportation crackdown in LA, said his team has arrived in #Chicago Tuesday & has made arrests.
Bovino's comments signaled an escalation of efforts by Trump's admin targeting undocumented immigrants in the 3rd-largest US city, while drawing criticism from local ofcls who said his actions were more for show than for improving safety.
#law #immigration #gestapo
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-border-patrol-chief-says-many-arrests-chicago-immigration-crackdown-2025-09-16/
@europesays #DonnieTwoDolls is NOT a bridge-builder with foreign investors in the #UnitedStates ?!
I’m shocked!
In fact, #AmericanCarnage2.0 is ALL shock and no awe!
#Resist the #Trump #kakistocracy.
#Trump's #gestapo preparing for the latest #EpsteinDistraction operation...
https://www.facebook.com/reel/709503885471261/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
@SocraticEthics #Putin is extremely pleased with his 
puppet in the #WhiteHouse. And his latest ‘command performance’ of #ICE #Gestapo arresting #Hyundai workers in #Georgia certainly entertained #KimJongUn in #NorthKorea.
@IveyJanette The article gets it wrong. #ICE does not carry out "law enforcement". They are #Gestapo carrying out the MAGA agenda of terror and intimidation against anyone who isn't white and Christian 
@PBSNewsHour @headlines-PBSNewsHour When #Trump sends #ICE , his other #Gestapo , and the #NationalGuard to cities, a good strategy would be for the residents and businesses to collectively turn their backs on them. Ignore them when they ask for anything, react slowly when they force an issue, fail to get out of their way when they try to push past. Say No to every question.
Fail again to be welcoming, compliant, or friendly.
uspol, news
"Chaffee County Commission fails to care for their residents, protect them from ICE goons "
the way this #KATU reporter (Tanvi Varma) preemptively glosses over Trump’s threats to “Wipe Them Out” at the beginning of the interview tells you everything you need to know.
it’s still pretty funny when Oregon FBI head Douglas Olsen expresses his concern re: “crimes against violent children” tho
honestly pretty delightful video of a suburban #pdx metro area chud pepper spraying herself in defense of ICE and then demanding an ambulance while local protesters stand around calmly asking “what r u doing tho” https://convo.casa/@b/115178126332712202
Die Deutschen haben einfach immer noch zuviel Angst vor der Polizei. Historisch ist das verständlich, da wir immer wieder an die #Gestapo erinnert werden. Wir leben aber im Moment in einem Rechtsstaat, an den auch die Polizei gebunden ist. Nutzen wir das aus, und machen wir Rabatz! Die Schwelle bis wir da Probleme kriegen, liegt ganz schön hoch.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who voted to approve the stay on the order, wrote that the Immigration and Nationality Act allows immigration officers to “interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States”. While “ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion” it can be used as a “relevant” factor, he wrote.
He also contended that if a US citizen or someone who is legally in the country is stopped, “questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States”. This would require citizens and anyone who is at risk of being profiled under this new order to carry around proof of their citizenship.
Department of Homeland Security called the supreme court decision a victory and vowed to continue to “flood the zone” in Los Angeles while accusing LA mayor Karen Bass of “protecting” immigrants. “DHS law enforcement will continue to FLOOD THE ZONE in Los Angeles. This decision is a victory for the safety of Americans in California and for the rule of law. DHS will continue to arrest and remove the criminal illegal aliens that @MayorOfLA is protecting,” read the social media post.
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These fuckers speak in the cartoonishly evil style of Hollywood movie gestapo Nazis, and there's a reason for that. The groyper shitstains running their comms literally admire those characters as the "good guys".
The latest #ICE operation in #Chicago was announced the same day that #SCOTUS issued a 6-3 decision allowing federal agents in Southern #California to proceed with #immigration raids that detain people on the basis of their #race, #ethnicity, #language or #accent, even without "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally.
Among those arrested, Gutierrez said, was a flower vendor taken into custody on the job, while others were detained as they waited for a bus or walked on the sidewalk.
"This was never about arresting the worst of the worst, this is about terrorizing our communities," Gutierrez, a Mexican immigrant, told a press conference.
