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Border Patrol chief is commanding dozens federal agent in chicago He and his officers have been ordered to appear in court every day after facing allegations that they violently detained protesters and indiscriminately fired tear gas into neighborhoods.
Greg Bovino, Donald Trump’s top Customs and Border Protection official mass deportation campaign In Illinois, Bovino was ordered to testify in federal court on Tuesday after protesters sued the administration, accusing Bovino and agents of repeatedly dousing residents with gas. Violation of a judge’s restraining order.
In court filings, protesters accused agents of shooting chemical agents at close range and pointing a gun at a demonstrator while chanting “Bang, bang” and “You’re dead, liberal.”
Protesters also alleged that masked agents hanging out the passenger seat window of an unmarked SUV fired tear gas canisters and “sparked violence” the morning before a Halloween parade in a Chicago suburb, where agents reportedly attacked three people, including 67 year old American citizenBefore filling the streets with tear gas.
“That was the same instance where children were present and they were wearing Halloween costumes,” Illinois District Judge Sarah Ellis said Tuesday.
“Those kids were tear gassed as they went to celebrate Halloween in the parking lot of their local school,” he said. “You can imagine that these kids’ sense of security is gone … and it’s going to take a long time to get back, if that ever happens.”
Bovino, the face of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda, has been ordered to appear in Ellis’ court every day next week until Nov. 5, when she is scheduled to hear a preliminary injunction. Prevent further use of riot weapons in Chicago.
“Almost every day” since Alice. issued a restraining order earlier this month“Federal agents have violated Chicago’s residential neighborhoods by using tear gas against civilians without any legal basis,” the plaintiffs wrote in court filings.
Plaintiff – Including A group of protesters, faith leaders, and journalists who cover the demonstrations – Argues that federal agents under Bovino’s orders “went on a neighborhood tour of Chicago, attacking residents of different neighborhoods every day” within the previous week.
He wrote, “Clearly, the defendants are not simply enforcing immigration laws. Immigration enforcement does not generally require the daily use of tear gas on citizens in residential areas.”
“Instead, the government is routinely harming citizens who are protesting or witnessing defendants’ violent and unprecedented paramilitary enforcement efforts in one of the nation’s largest municipalities,” the plaintiffs argued.
He argues that officials are “inciting violence in peaceful residential neighborhoods in order to turn Chicago into the same ‘war zone’ it is.” [administration officials] Use to justify the deployment of more federal force.”
“The defendants are making their own excuses for their presence and behavior in Chicago,” he wrote.
During the last week, Unstable scenes emerged Protests against immigration raids erupted in Chicago’s Little Village, Lakeview and Old Irving Park neighborhoods, where masked and heavily armed and armored Border Patrol agents filled the streets with tear gas and arrested several protesters.
According to the plaintiffs, at the protest in Little Village on October 23, “Bovino was apparently the first federal agent to throw a tear gas canister into the crowd.” He argued, “Bovino gave no audible warning before doing so and at the time he fired the tear gas, the crowd was not violent or committing a crime.”
Photos filed in court show Bovino standing with agents and throwing tear gas canisters toward protesters.
Homeland Security spokesperson said Independent Bovino was hit in the head by an object thrown by a “rioter”.
“Did Judge Ellis get hit in the head with a rock like I did this morning?” Bovino told a reporter at the scene. “Maybe she needs to see what he’s like before giving him such an order.”
During the same interview, Bovino said, “I take my orders from the executive branch.”
According to the plaintiffs, the Border Patrol chief’s statements “suggest a contempt for the authority of this Court to restrain his unlawful conduct”.
Homeland Security officials have argued that “rioters” and “agitators” “surrounded” and “assaulted” agents during demonstrations in the Chicago suburbs. A spokesman said officers legally deployed riot weapons after the crowd “ignored” multiple warnings to leave the area. Independent In response to questions about the measures taken in the use of force in several demonstrations.
Assistant Secretary of State Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Tuesday that Secretary Kristi Noem’s “message to the rioters is clear: You will not stop us or slow us down.”
“ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law,” he said. “And if you put your hands on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”