Border patrol chief defends aggressive Chicago crackdown

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00:00You could almost say we do patrol a beat here in Chicago.

00:09We operate in concert with ICE, Homeland Security Investigations.

00:12We're laser focused on the immigration mission.

00:14We do go after the collaterals just like we did in Los Angeles.

00:17Same way here.

00:18And a lot of it's in conjunction with targeting.

00:21And again, if we see an illegal alien, we don't let them pass.

00:27We're going to use, just as we always have, that least amount of force necessary to affect the arrest or the mission.

00:42All the time on the border.

00:43So the use of a less lethal device receives criticism.

00:49You notice I just said a less lethal device in the face of a potentially life altering injury.

00:58No, I'd fail to see that.

01:00You know, agents surrounded by violence, having rocks thrown at them, take a rock to the eye or the head.

01:16And, you know, and I don't want that to happen to anyone.

01:21We're what I call now sanctuary busters.

01:28Oh, there aren't sanctuaries.

01:31I don't, I think we're going to be in Chicago a good while, but, but you just never know.

01:37You know, it wouldn't surprise me to see us in a, you know, a city near you.

01:52Here's a tunnel, we're gonna find out, inside you.