Top US border official to face judge in Chicago
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US Customs and Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino will appear in court Tuesday to answer a judge’s concerns about federal agents’ aggressive tactics after he was recorded throwing what appears to be a tear gas canister into a crowd.
Greg Bovino is being hauled to court every day after his officers are accused of gassing neighborhoods and threatening protesters with ‘you’re dead, liberal’ taunts
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to overhaul leadership within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replacing roughly half of the agency’s regional directors with Border Patrol officials,
The Department of Homeland Security revealed on Tuesday that over 2 million illegal immigrants have left the United States during the first nine months of President Donald Trump‘s second term. The announcement follows the Trump administration’s commitment to deport a minimum of a million people living in the U.
Its agents are immigration officers, like officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is also part of the Department of Homeland Security. While ICE has traditionally operated in the country, Border Patrol’s focus is the 6,000 miles of international border and a zone of about 100 miles inland.
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
On Saturday, Border Patrol agents converged on the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the city's Northwest Side to conduct an immigration enforcement raid. Neighborhood residents claimed the agents interrupted a children's Halloween parade and allegedly deployed tear gas without warning on residents trying to intervene.