U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino has recently boasted that nearly 3,000 people have been arrested in Chicago so far since the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city began last month, but, on Tuesday, Bovino was admonished by a federal judge over the way his agents have gone about making these arrests, which, as we’ve noted multiple times, has been largely comprised of workers and residents who may or may not have their legal paperwork in order, but are not the hardened gang members with extensive criminal records that the administration has claimed it’s going after.
Specifically, the judge spent more than an hour reading Bovino for filth over his agency’s use of force and tear gas in Chicago near schools and residential areas, which violates that same judge’s previous order limiting their use of such tactics.
According to the New York Times, Sara L. Ellis of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois read to Bovino from the very order she implemented as a result of a lawsuit filed against the Department of Homeland Security over the brutal tactics of ICE and other federal agencies. Ellis also cited numerous instances of ICE agents appearing to ignore her order, including a recent incident in which they used tear gas in a neighborhood where children were about to march in a Halloween parade. She said that during that incident, agents failed to warn residents before tossing tear gas canisters at them, including one agent who she said threw a canister out of a car as it drove away.
Since Bovino seems unable or unwilling to keep his agents under control, the good judge has decided to treat them all like children, ordering him to appear for weekly reviews of their behavior.
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