US EditionCritics clash over U.S. Border Patrol chief’s role in Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Juan Espinoza Martinez was acquitted of a murder-for-hire plot but faces deportation due to an existing immigration detainer, officials said.
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Dozens of agents, with their faces covered even under their gas masks, bulletproof vests and riot control equipment, lined up in front of the Minneapolis federal building where Donald Trump’s government has for weeks maintained the central base of its intense migration operation in the city. On the other side of the cold street, a group of protesters insulted them. Among the officers emerged the figure of Gregory Bovino. He wore a long coat, dou…
Ever since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began to spread across American cities, their uniforms have been a point of contention. The clothes became symbols of the battle over the Donald Trump administration's immigration and deportation policies, their enforcement, and the debate over whether those policies are a tool of authoritarianism or a justified reaction to an unsustainable situation. Exclusive subject for subscrib…
In the middle of the chaos of Minneapolis, he suddenly stood there, Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino. Dressed in an olive green coat with shoulder flaps, brass buttons and pointed cuffs. The California governor has called the choice of clothing “Nazi-coded.” – I’ve had it for 25 years, Bovino tells News Nation, dismissing the accusations.
DHS's Bovino nailed by journalist with comparison to first Grand Wizard of the KKK
According to journalist and author Garrett Graff, critics of Greg Bovino, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, are making the wrong complaint when they call the abrasive DHS official a Nazi.A comparison to one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan is closer to the mark, he told MS NOW’s Ali Velshi on ...
Who Is Gregory Bovino? The official Bbehind Trump’s aggressive border enforcement
The official overseeing President Trump’s Border Patrol operations is Gregory Bovino, a figure who has publicly defended ICE’s hard-line enforcement approach and drawn attention for wearing a coat critics say resembles a Nazi-style uniform, with more details about his background and role reported by Jennie Shin.
Under his command, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) has arrested thousands of immigrants in the United States.
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