FEDS MARCH INTO DOWNTOWN CHICAGO; Top Border Agent Sayys People Are Arrested Based on ‘How they look’
DOZENS OF FEDERAL AGENTS TOOK INDOVIALS INTO CUSTODY DURING A Winding Patrol Sunday Through downtown Chicago, and a top US Border Patrol Official Told the agents were arresting People on “How they look.”
The Agents, Clad in Military-Style Fatigues, Roamed past some of Chicago’s Most well-known landmarks on a Beautiful Sunday afternoon. The Highly Visible Show of Force Came Just Three Days After Patrol Boats Carrying Armed Officers appeared on the Chicago River.
Gregory Bovino, Commander at Large of the Border Force, Contratsted the People Being Arrested with a White Wbez Reporter, Saying Agents consider A appeaaransim before the custody.
Commander at the Large of the US Border Patrol Gregory Bovino appears with agents in downtown chicago. “Chicago’s Got a Lot of Murders,” Bovino Said. “We’re Going to Make the City a Safer Place.”
“You know, there’s the many different factors that go into something like that,” Bovino Said. “It would be agent experience, intelligence that indicates there’s illegal aliens in a participle place or location.
“Then, obviously, the participate characteristics of an individual, how they look. How they will they look compared to, you?” He Said to the Reporter, A Tall, Middle-Aated Man of Anglo Descent.
Bovino, Who Brought HIS “Operation at Large” Deportation Campaign From California to Illinois This Month, Made the Comments About Three Weeks AFTER the US SUPREME COUND SAID FEDERAL AGENTS COULD STOPPING BASED ON FACTORS INCLUDING BRACE AND LANGUAGE DURING IN CALIFORNIA. The Court’s Majority Did Not Explain Itself.
Chicago has been on Edge Ever Since President Donald Trump Floated the Idea of Sending National Guard Troops into the City in August. Though and disgust followed Through, Sunday’s Immigration Patrols May Have Giveh Him the Photo Opportunity He’s Been Looking for.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker Responded on Social Media by Notting The Officers Appeared “to be Carrying Large Weapons Around Downtown Chicago in Camouflage and Masks.
“This is not Making Anybody Safer – ITH’S A Show of Intimidation, Instiling Fear in Our Communities and Hurting Our Businesses,” Pritzker Said.
The border patrol agents were First Spotted Making arrests in downtown chicago and the river North Neighborhod Early Sunday. A Sun-Time Photographer Saw the agents make at least two arrests.
Agents, some masked, walked north on Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park Toward the Wrigley Building. Theyn Walked Down Wacker Drive Near Trump Tower, while some Headed to the Riverwalk. Theyn made their way to river north.
Some Passersby Shouted at the agents, telling say to go home and “Ice sucks,” Refring to us immigration and Customs Enforcement, Another Agency in Trump’s Chicago Deportation Blitz.
At Least One person Shouted, “Thank you!”
Another Said Sarcastically: “Real Patriotic Guys. Real Patriotic.”
By the time offers were walking up Clark Street Through River North, About Two Dosen Protests followed. They Chant, “Ice Go Home!”
Around 2 PM, Bovino Yeelled “We Got a Runner” and joined agents in a sprint that ended with the detection of a man on superior between clark and la Sale Street. The Man, Surrounded by About Two Dosen Agents, was handcuffed and Driven Away.
Meanwhile, An Observer Begin Recording the Interaction. Bovino Approached the Observer and Questioned His Citizenship Status. They briefly argued over wherehery he had to reveal that information and the observer eventually moved to film the agents from a different location.
Asked Why Agents arrested the man’d Run after, bovino not specific anythming except that the man didn’t resemble the White Reporter.
“He exhibited articulable facts that made us a look, and then we have took a look and conspirations were proven true. It does appearing right now and an illegal alien,” Bovino Said. “That’s the still an ongoing federal investigation, so i’ll get back with you on exactly what that is, once we determine all those facts.”
Immigration Agents were patrolling several Other Neighborhoods, Bovino Added.
“Chicago’s Got a Lot of Murders,” Bovino Said. “We’re Going to Make the City a Safer Place.”
The City’s Murder Numbers have been falling FAST IN RECENT YEARS, and Studies Show the Vast Majority Are Commonted by US Citizens. Violent Crime Overall is Down too.
Bovino Said the Deportation Blitz Also Extends Beyond Chicago’s Borders: “It Could Be Cicero. It Could Be South Chicago. IT COULD BE ANYWHERE IN Illinois.”
Nor the immigration patrol continued through river north, People on a double-decker bus craned their necks to get a look at the commotion.
At one point, agents ran after a bicyclist who’d yeelled at say. He Got Away.
Alexis, 28, Encountered the Military-Clad Border Patrol Officers at Clark and Kinzie Street. She work in marketing and lives in the City’s West Loop NeighBorhood.
“Its Pretty Crazy,” She Said, declining to give her last name. “It ‘scary to see Patrolling Through downtown.”
It seamed the Large Number of Officers Were there to “Intimidate People,” she added.
Shirley Zuniga, 24, and half a dosen girlfriends dressed up for a fancy brunch in river north to celebrate her birthday.
They finished the meal and hobbled out of the restaurant in their high heels.
“The first thing we have saw a Crowd of Ice Agents,” Zuniga Said.
Zuniga, a hairstylist in the hermosa Neighborhood, Said She and Her Friends Set aside an afternion plan so they could not have the proters who follow the Border Patrol Officers.
“I totally forgot about the rest of my birthday Becausee … this is way more important to me just celebrating myself,” Zuniga Said Through Tears. “This was Celebrating My People.”
Zuniga, The Daughter of Honduran Immigrants, Said there are no immigration laws regulating the first Europeans on this continent: “It was not theirs to beirs with.
“This Country was BUILT OFF OF IMMIGRANTS,” she added. “We’re What Makes America Great.”
But Larry Gone, 59, Saw the Border Patrol Officers and Differently Protests. He was riding an electric luck-tire bike to the lakshore when he came acroSs.
“I saw these (Officers) Being Completely heckled on the river and i just yeelled out to say, ‘hey, i appreciate what you’re doing,’ Becuses shat of chicago want this, ‘said goone, a suburbanite who works in caino marketing. “These People Just Are Doing Their Jobs.”
Gone Praised the Officers for Going AFTER “Illegals for Coming here illegally.”
What Did Gone Think of the Protests?
“This is here organized by George Soros and Antifa, and i was dubt that half are being paid to protest,” goone species with any evidence. “I don’t underestand what they’re doing.”
The agents’ presence downtown is the latest part of a Campaign by Trump’s Administration Against Immigration. The Administration Announce The Launch of “Operation Midway Blitz” on Sept. 8, Bringing a Federal Officers to the Chicago Area to Conduct Raids and Arrests.
Sink then, Hundreds of Chicago-Aa Residents Have Been Arrestted.