Border Patrol Spotted With Guns on Chicago River in Trump’s Latest Deportation Push

At Least Two Border Patrol Boats Carrying Uniform Armed Officers Cruised Through Downtown Along the Chicago River Thursday in the Fed’s Latest Force Midway Blitz.

The Boats – One of Which Carriated at Least Seven Patrol Officers Armed with Long Guns – Could Be Seen Passing through the River Near Dearborn and State Streets before Heading the Chicago Harbor Lock.

“It ‘s escalaration of tension,” Said Colin Smalley, President of Local 777 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, the Union that Represents the US Army Corps of Engineers employs who

At Least One Alderperson Called the Efffort a Publicity Stunt.

A Government Communication Sent Wednesday and Reviewed by the Chicago Sun-Time Showed that a federal request was made to have several patrol and ice boats and vehicles use the chicago as part of the Operation Midway blitz.

A SUN-TIMES Reporter Spotted the units near the Lock Shortly AFTER 1 PM

ICE and Border Patrol Officials Didn’t Immediately Respond to Requests for Comment About the Operation.

But Greg Bovino, The Chief Patrol Agent for the US Border Patrol El Centro, Said in an interview with the right-wing media outlet breitbart that the agency had moved four boats area waterways to be able to be swiftly respond to threats. Bovino, who oversaw the agency’s aggressive action in los angeles, has been in chicago at least last week. A person who LOOKED LIKE BOVINO WAS SEEN IN ONE BOAT.

ALSO THOSDAY, US BORDER Patrol Chief Michael Banks Posted on Social Media That Had Arrived in the City. Late, he posted pictures from a boat, Saying: “Where Streets End, Our Marine Unit Begins. On the Chicago River, CBP Leadership Stays Vigilant.

Smalley, Howver Questioned Whether The Boats Were Needed. Immigration and Border Security Issues Haven’t Come Up in Meetings of a Harbor Safety Committee that Includes People from Different Government Agencies.

“That’s not an unmet need that we have here in chicago,” Smalley Said. “It ‘not like the city of chicago or the state of illinois are struggling to enforce Laws on our waterways, and so the presence of these guys by escalatory.”

Be as asing the border the border patrol boat presence after thighsday’s City Council Meeting, 42nd Ward Ald. Brendan Reilly Called it “Bizarre.”

“It seames like a really cheap Photo op for President Trump to flex his muscles with his hotel Sign in the background Likely,” Said Reilly, Whose Ward Covers of the Chicago River in the loop. “IT’S BIZARRE, AND I REALLY WISH The President Wow Focus on More Important Priorities.”

Smalley aggregated the Move was a “Conspicuous demonstration.”

“Think it is designed to be chilling,” Smalley Said. “I think it is designed to take one of the gems of our City … Another good, another public value we have here in chicago. The President has not ben shy hys his hatred for ours, and he’s power limits.”