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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

As the brash Border Patrol boss was on the front lines in Chicago again today - amid clouds of tear gas - it's worth checking out this recent story about what Gregory Bovino left behind in his previous deployment to LA www.wbez.org/public-safet...

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis is allowing the deposition of Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino to expand to FIVE hours (she'd limited it to 2), and she wants to hear about use of force by CBP in Little Village on Wednesday and Thursday.

Plus a reminder to "preserve all body-worn camera footage."

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 1d

And if ya don’t know, now ya know

Michelle L. Quinn @regionbroad.bsky.social · 1d

Because @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social is a queen

Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 2d

Big shouts to @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social and @ashleerezin.bsky.social for catching this practice. Now the SoS has launched a hotline to track it.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 2d

Big shouts to @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social and @ashleerezin.bsky.social for catching this practice. Now the SoS has launched a hotline to track it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has launched a hotline to report license plate tampering.
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Illinois aims to crack down on ICE cars with illegal license plates after Sun-Times report

Two weeks after the Sun-Times first requested information about federal immigration vehicles with questionable plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has launched a hotline to report license pla...

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 5d

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

From @schuba.bsky.social @sophiesherry.bsky.social @chipmitchell1.bsky.social and Frank Main: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 7d

Huge credit to my @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org partners @sophiesherry.bsky.social @chipmitchell1.bsky.social Frank Main and Alden Loury.

Read all of our coverage:

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 7d

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino’s time in Chicago has been marked by made-for-TV spectacles and jarring force.

He’s also continued to face allegations of race-based policing, piling onto similar claims from his time in California.

chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 7d

Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino’s time in Chicago has been marked by made-for-TV spectacles and jarring force.

He’s also continued to face allegations of race-based policing, piling onto similar claims from his time in California.

chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 7d

“The government appealed last month, arguing the order is unnecessary because the Border Patrol issued directives about making lawful stops and arrests and committed to training 900 employees on constitutional enforcement.”

This made me laugh. “We wrote it down + more training.” Evergreen.

From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chip Mitchell @chipmitchell1.bsky.social · 7d

Propelling a #deportation blitz in #Chicago, U.S. #BorderPatrol boss Gregory Bovino is using tactics similar to those that sparked lawsuits against him and other feds in #California.

@schuba.bsky.social @sophiesherry.bsky.social @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org
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From California to Chicago, a Border Patrol boss sparks accusations of race-based arrests

Gregory Bovino led aggressive immigration operations in California, leading to lawsuits questioning his agents’ tactics. The same tactics are being used in his “Operation Midway Blitz” mission in Chic...

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 8d

Lt. Paz issued the following statement:

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 8d

Chicago Police Lt. Franklin Paz was granted a nearly $1M settlement in a lawsuit alleging a traffic stop quota system.

“I hope it sends a clear message to any supervisors who like to bully their subordinates, or pressure them into doing things that are illegal or unethical."
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Chicago police supervisor hopes $1M settlement over traffic stop quota sends 'clear message' to bosses

Lt. Franklin Paz Jr. said he was reassigned from an elite citywide unit after he resisted a directive pushing his officers to make at least 10 traffic stops each shift. In an exclusive interview, Paz ...

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 14d

The resident of a rundown apartment building on Chicago’s South Side was not about to let in the Venezuelan migrant neighbors who came to his door that night.

But the 7-year-old girl was terrified — and she hid under the neighbor’s bed during the federal raid
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 14d

The apartment complex at 7500 S. South Shore Drive drew the national spotlight last month when it was targeted in a jarring immigration raid.

Residents say the conditions had long been "unlivable." And the city, owner and manager did little to address squalor and crime.

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‘Unlivable’ conditions festered at Chicago apartment building long before jarring immigration raid

Residents at the building targeted by federal agents blame the owner and property manager for “inhumane” conditions that city efforts did little to improve and that predate the arrival of immigrants.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 21d

NEWS: The sons of two former Chicago police superintendents have been stripped of their policing powers.

Terry Hillard’s son is accused of PPP fraud.

Fred Waller’s son is facing allegations of domestic violence, home invasion and car theft.

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Cops accused of PPP fraud, domestic violence are the sons of two former Chicago police superintendents

The sons of Terry Hillard and Fred Waller have both been stripped of their policing powers pending investigations, the Sun-Times has found.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · 28d

News: A prison company that’s been the target of lawsuits and a federal investigation is now hiring staff to support Trump’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.

CoreCivic is paying workers in Chicago and Broadview $37/hr to help facilitate deportations.

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Prison company hiring for ICE centers around Chicago ready to cash in on Trump 'blitz,' 'Big Beautiful Bill'

CoreCivic is looking for administrative workers to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcment in Chicago and at ICE's Broadview processing facility.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Sep 18

We’ve asked the Trump administration repeatedly for a full list of those arrested under the current immigration crackdown in Chicago.

Instead, theI’ve trickled out news releases and statements with detainees they call “the worst of the worst.”

So we made a database and fact-checked their claims.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Sep 18

Some of those arrested have violent criminal histories, including men respectively convicted of murder and sexually abusing a child. Others were previously deported from the country.
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30 arrests reported in Trump's deportation campaign in Chicago — but feds won't provide full tally

Some of those arrested have violent criminal histories, including men respectively convicted of murder and sexually abusing a child. Others were previously deported from the country.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Sep 16

NEWS: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents weren’t wearing body cameras during the deadly shooting of a Mexican immigrant last week in the suburbs because a program requiring them was scrapped by the Trump administration.
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ICE agents didn’t have body cams during deadly shooting of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez outside Chicago

The Trump administration scrapped the agency’s body cam program soon after the president took office this year, according to a former ICE chief of staff in the Biden administration. The Chicago Police...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Sep 15

Gov. JB Pritzker ripped the feds Monday for clamming up about who’s investigating a fatal shooting by an immigration agent in Franklin Park — part of a larger lack of transparency over the use of force by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Pritzker slams feds' silence on fatal ICE shooting in Franklin Park

"This is the most unusual situation I've seen in my entire lifetime," the governor said Monday of what appears to be the first fatal shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this year. A man who witnessed the deadly encounter said he doesn't think the official account is true.

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Sep 12

NEWS: The Trump administration touted “the worst of the worst” arrested so far in the “Midway Blitz” immigration enforcement operation in Chicago.

Turns out, some were actually arrested in Indiana and Kentucky.

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Feds tout 'worst of the worst' arrested in Chicago immigration blitz, but some were caught out of state

At least two of the men, and apparently a third, were arrested outside of Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times found.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: More details on Trump's Chicago immigration blitz.

-230 agents arrive from LA this weekend w/ 140 unmarked vehicles

-30 already arrived and are practicing crowd control with shields/flashbangs

-agents will leave base daily by 5 a.m.

-new no-fly zone at NSGL to keep away news choppers/drones

Flash-bang grenades and early morning raids: How Trump is planning to target Chicago

Hundreds of federal agents are being sent to a suburban naval base from Los Angeles, where an immigration blitz this summer spurred protests that pushed Trump to call in the National Guard. Trump has ...

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW: Flash-bang grenades and early morning raids: How Trump is planning to target Chicago, from ace reporter @vimiller.bsky.social.

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Flash-bang grenades and early morning raids: How Trump is planning to target Chicago

Hundreds of federal agents are being sent to a suburban naval base from Los Angeles, where an immigration blitz this summer spurred protests that pushed Trump to call in the National Guard. Trump has ...

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is one of the most beautiful “rap” songs

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Earl Sweatshirt - TOURMALINE (Official Video)

YouTube video by Earl Sweatshirt

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Tom Schuba @schuba.bsky.social · Aug 29

Chicago’s O Block, made infamous by rappers like Chief Keef, has seen more shootings than any other block since 2010.

But with crime falling, residents say they feel safer and scoff at the notion that President Trump’s plan to send the National Guard would make things better.

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Residents of Chicago's most violent block don't want Trump to send the National Guard

O Block, made infamous by rappers like Chief Keef, has seen more shootings than any other block since 2010. But with crime now falling, residents say they feel safer and scoff at the notion that a mil...

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