US EditionBovino pushed back on directive to conduct ‘targeted operations’ in Chicago, email shows
Greg Bovino opposed targeted arrests and led a large-scale Chicago immigration sweep with about 1,600 arrests, prompting protests, lawsuits, and his removal.
- Greg Bovino pushed for large-scale immigration sweeps in Chicago during a September operation and asserted he reports to Corey Lewandowski, top aide to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
- Amid administration pressure, DHS emails reveal tensions within President Donald Trump's team as aides pushed broader enforcement, contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's Jan. 15 remarks on targeted enforcement.
- Operation Midway Blitz grew to include roughly 1,600 arrests during location-based sweeps that stopped groups such as day laborers at a Home Depot parking lot.
- Following fatal shootings, Bovino was reassigned from Minneapolis to El Centro, California, after two Border Patrol agents fatally shot ICU nurse Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
- Community leaders and lawmakers criticized agent tactics, and lawsuits filed during Chicago crackdown raised awareness, while Tom Homan, border czar, and Rodney Scott, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, advocated a targeted approach.
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Bovino pushed back on directive to conduct ‘targeted operations’ in Chicago, email shows
Months before two fatal shootings in Minneapolis by Border Patrol agents, Greg Bovino, who until last week was overseeing the agency’s immigration enforcement operations, pushed back on internal efforts to temper his aggressive approach, according to an email that was obtained by NBC News.
The return of Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino to the El Centro sector has several residents worried that the "tough on crime" tactics of the agents under his command will reach the region, according to several people who spoke to KPBS. Videos of immigration officers under Bovino's command confronting protesters have become commonplace since his initial operations in Los Angeles this spring. The deaths of two U.S. citizens in shootings in Minnea…
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