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00:21Trump has promised to conduct what he calls the largest deportation program in American history.
00:27We will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they
00:35came.
00:35In collaboration with ProPublica.
00:37Lovino was deployed to several cities.
00:39He was the one who was the tip of the spear for this new type of immigration enforcement across the
00:44country.
00:44When we talk about who they're arresting and who they're holding accountable, it's not the worst of the worst.
00:49From Los Angeles.
00:51Hundreds of National Guard troops.
00:53To Chicago.
00:54Operation Midway Blitz.
00:55To Minneapolis.
00:57The White House today doubling down.
00:59The pushback on protest.
01:01Trying to terrify people and try to scare people away.
01:04Border patrol agents didn't wake up in the morning and say, let me see who I can hurt today.
01:07And the fallout.
01:09President Trump and I, along with others in the administration, have recognized that certain improvements could and should be made.
01:14Now on Frontline, caught in the crackdown.
01:39This program contains graphic content.
01:43Viewer discretion is advised.
01:47The Trump administration is deploying an estimated 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis.
01:53That includes ICE agents.
01:54Homeland Security posted on social media this afternoon, quote, we're not leaving until the problem is solved.
02:01Go home to Texas, assholes.
02:05January 7th, 2026.
02:11A month into the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration in Minneapolis, federal officers approached an activist named Renee Goode
02:22as she sat in her car.
02:23That's fine, dude.
02:24I'm not mad at you.
02:26You want to come at us?
02:27I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.
02:30Now the car.
02:30Now the car.
02:32Get out of the car.
02:34No!
02:35No!
02:36Shit!
02:37Shit!
02:39Oh my fucking God!
02:41What the fuck?
02:42What the fuck?
02:44You just fucked.
02:45What the fuck did you do?
02:47The killing of Renee Goode by ICE officer Jonathan Ross stunned the country.
02:53What did you do?
02:56You!
02:57Shame!
02:59Shame!
03:01Shame!
03:02Shame!
03:04We are following a breaking news situation in South Minneapolis, a shooting involving ICE agents.
03:12We have just learned the victim's name. She is a 37-year-old woman and her name is Renee Nicole
03:18Goode. She was shot and killed today and ICE claims that the agent opened fire after Goode, quote, weaponized her
03:27vehicle in an attempt to kill a federal officer.
03:30In the days afterwards, I spoke to eyewitnesses and visited the site where Goode was killed.
03:37Mother of three, a partner, and a poet, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Goode, as described by those who knew
03:44her. Her neighbors now mourning their loss.
03:48Like many here, Goode had been out on the streets opposing the immigration sweeps.
03:53Yeah, I just started filming because I saw her body on the ground.
03:56A few blocks away, I met Liliana Zaragoza, who showed me videos she'd take in the morning of the shooting.
04:05She was on her way home after dropping off her kids.
04:10I opened my door and I exited with my hands up and I looked at one of the MPD officers,
04:17right, and I said, I'm an attorney.
04:18What, you know, what's going on? Is this an ICE operation? Is it an MPD operation? Is it something else?
04:25And he said, this is a crime scene now.
04:29And so when I get into my car, you know, I just grabbed my phone and started recording and I
04:35saw on the sidewalk, a bloodied person, bloodied head, I'm looking at her eyes, I'm looking at her body.
04:45And it was just a really horrific, violent thing to see.
04:48And for activists like you, what does her death mean?
04:54You know, I think it hits close to home for a lot of us who've been responding to these ICE
04:58raids.
05:00Frankly, you know, I was there responding like Renee Goode was responding.
05:05That was what you were doing. She was doing the same thing.
05:08And she wound up dead.
05:09Yes, exactly.
05:11The Trump administration depicted Goode as part of an extremist left-wing movement.
05:16Is that that woman has, is part of a broader left-wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and
05:24to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job.
05:26And the man the administration put in charge of the operation, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, defended the officer who
05:34killed her.
05:35A 4,000-pound missile is not something anyone wants to face, especially in a split-second decision-making process
05:43in a very, already inhospitable environment.
05:47Hats off to that ICE agent. I'm glad he made it out alive. I'm glad he's with his family.
05:54By the time Renee Goode was killed...
05:57Bovino is in the Gold Suburban.
06:00I'd been following Bovino and the Trump administration's immigration sweeps around the country for seven months.
06:07Are you speaking English?
06:08Thousands had been arrested on immigration charges.
06:11Do me a favor. Just stay back, okay?
06:13What is your mission today? Like, if you were going to describe it for PBS.
06:16Title 8 immigration enforcement. So, uh, that's what we're here for.
06:20And all these bad people and bad things you see on the street that prey on American citizens, we're here
06:25to get them.
06:29But there was also a backlash.
06:32Better be careful. There's a lot of violence. Be careful.
06:34Are you encountering a lot of resistance?
06:37Most I've ever seen.
06:37Really?
06:38You bet.
06:38Amid the protests, the masked and heavily armed federal agents, sometimes backed by the military, had also arrested hundreds of
06:48U.S. citizens, routinely portraying them as domestic terrorists or extremists.
06:53Like, who do you think you're dealing with? Like, I'm not, like, Rambo or anything.
06:58With my colleagues at ProPublica and Frontline, we've interviewed officials, experts, and insiders.
07:05When you talk to agents who've been dispatched for these big operations, what do they tell you?
07:10They say it's a horrific situation and they've been put in very dangerous positions.
07:20So, I've definitely seen a lot of violent acts instilled onto the agents by the protesters.
07:27And we analyzed the arrests of more than 300 protesters and bystanders caught in the crackdown.
07:34How could you do this?
07:36Why did you stop and question all these three-zill phones? Please get out of here.
07:39Get back. Get back. Get back.
07:41While there have been some successful prosecutions, over and over, cases have been falling apart, contradicted by video evidence and
07:50witness testimony.
07:52Do you have video of it?
07:53Right here.
07:56And that's you getting it?
07:57Yep.
07:58Federal prosecutors have been dismissing charges or not filing them at all.
08:03So, the case has collapsed. These things are not resulting in any real prosecution.
08:08No, no, no, no, no!
08:11And in cities across the country, countless people have been injured and some even killed
08:17by officers using tactics that experts say violate their own rules.
08:22People live here!
08:24You're not allowed to use less lethal weapons in that way. You're not allowed to fire people's heads.
08:30The agents attempted to disarm the individual, but he violently resisted.
08:35Fearing for his life, a Border Patrol agent fired defensive shots.
08:47By February, amid rising opposition around the country,
08:54the Trump administration began backing off its campaign.
08:58And the man at the center of it, Greg Bovino, was out.
09:08Reports of a surge in raids of undocumented residents have been circulating on social media.
09:13The roots of the story trace back to January 2025.
09:18Pura Mira.
09:19And a little-known operation that Bovino led in Bakersfield, California.
09:24Yeah, regular undercovers, everything.
09:27It was called Return to Sender.
09:29They were just rolling around the city like it was theirs,
09:31as if they were right, you know, in the El Centro border.
09:34Journalist Sergio Olmos reported on it for the non-profit news outlets CalMatters and Evident Media.
09:41Greg Bovino, who was then the sector chief for El Centro,
09:43sent out about 65 agents 300 miles north of his sector into the interior of California
09:50to do this operation that they said at the time they had a targeted list of criminals they were going
09:55after.
09:56Fools came in deep on the Home Depot lot, helicopter and all.
10:00But Greg Bovino's crew would go up to Home Depots, gas stations, farmland.
10:05La migra, güey!
10:07You know, looking at people who look Latino and stopping them and asking,
10:10show me your papers.
10:10Y aquí la patrulla fronteriza, pues, tiene, pues, me imagino,
10:15eh, pidiéndole los respectivos documentos a las personas.
10:19Thanks so much for inviting us.
10:20Bovino agreed to talk to Olmos about the operation.
10:25Every single one of the 78 that we arrested were criminals
10:28when you cross the border illegally at USC 1325,
10:32a legal entry into the United States, so they were all criminals.
10:35Let's get that one out of the way here, um, right out of the box.
10:43If they cross the border illegally, then they're coming with us.
10:47They were under arrest, and they're coming with us.
10:51They said they were looking after, going after criminals.
10:54Um, that was what they promoted it as.
10:57And what was the reality?
10:59We got documents from Customs and Border Protection that showed that 77 out of the 78 people they arrested,
11:05they had no knowledge of criminal or immigration history prior to encountering them.
11:10All that means is they didn't know who these people were when they arrested them.
11:14The idea of a target enforcement where traditionally someone like,
11:18an agency like ICE would find out if somebody has a criminal record,
11:22they'd surveil their house, they'd check to see if they had been deported before.
11:25That whole, like, pre-investigation stuff, that doesn't happen when, you know,
11:29guys in Border Patrol just roll up to Home Depot and Kevlar and mask and see who runs.
11:33That's f***ed up what you guys are doing.
11:36And this operation in Bakersfield, we saw as a kind of, like, test case
11:40for how he could use Border Patrol in the interior.
11:45Yesterday's catch from Indio is being brought in by the Border Patrol.
11:50In fact, return to sender was a throwback to a campaign from the 1950s.
11:55Greg Bovino told congressional investigators a couple years earlier
11:58his model for immigration was President Eisenhower,
12:01that he really knew how to do interior enforcement.
12:03And I had to look this up because I didn't know what he was talking about,
12:06but it was Operation Wetback.
12:07This is the morning prison train.
12:09It's cargo, Mexican wetback, who have sneaked across the border
12:14and are being deported.
12:15The operation, which took its name from a racial slur,
12:20started on the border, but eventually extended to major cities
12:23like Chicago and Los Angeles.
12:27Bavino really looks at Operation Wetback
12:29as, like, the way that Border Patrol should be used.
12:33They should not just be lined up on the border watching a wall.
12:36They should be in cities setting up checkpoints
12:38and just stopping people.
12:40They got this guy pulled over right here at INS.
12:43And treating every town as if it's right across the border.
12:48We made contact with and arrested a lot of bad people.
12:51In the interview with Olmos in early 2025,
12:56Bavino said the Border Patrol would be taking an aggressive approach going forward.
13:00Over the next several years, we're going to go hard.
13:03Whether you're an illegal alien, a fentanyl smuggler,
13:07or any other type of transnational criminal threats,
13:10I'd self-deport right now.
13:13Just go ahead and self-deport,
13:14because the Green Team is on the job,
13:19and it's game on.
13:21Game on with the Green Team.
13:23Federal authorities have been reported
13:24at several locations in Los Angeles.
13:27Five months after Operation Return to Sendra,
13:29the Trump administration deployed Greg Bavino to Los Angeles.
13:34This was not a folk depot in Westlake.
13:37It was earlier this morning.
13:39Homeland security agents were detaining multiple people outside that.
13:43He would be a key player
13:44in carrying out the president's immigration crackdown.
13:48Widespread immigration raids here in L.A.
13:50Federal officials have detained multiple people at different locations.
13:54I arrived in L.A.
13:55as dozens of people a day were being swept up in raids
13:58by the Border Patrol, ICE, and other federal agencies.
14:02Fifteen-year-old Brian Vasquez screaming at Border Patrol agents
14:06as they take his father into custody.
14:10Angry residents were also coming out to confront the agents.
14:14You've got no justice in here!
14:16Say that!
14:17I don't know!
14:19That's what I got!
14:21And protests were erupting.
14:23Who's street?
14:24I'm street!
14:25Who's street?
14:26I'm street!
14:27At this point, they're clearly outnumbered.
14:30They certainly are,
14:31and they're slowly making their way out of here.
14:33Oh, you guys, this is a Paramount on Atlantic.
14:36On June 7th,
14:37hundreds of protesters gathered
14:39near a Border Patrol staging area.
14:41I'm going to start charging on this right now,
14:43but I don't know.
14:44Hey, you guys,
14:45there's more of us than there's them!
14:46Come on!
14:47Bovino told his agents
14:49how to handle the protesters.
14:51Arrest as many people
14:52that touch you
14:53as you want to.
14:54Those are the general orders.
14:55All the way to the top,
14:57everybody gets it
14:58if they touch you.
14:59You hear what I'm saying?
15:00Less legals?
15:02We're going to look at shipping
15:04tractor-trailer loads of that
15:05in here.
15:06So, you catch what I'm...
15:07It's all about us now.
15:09It ain't about them.
15:10Professional,
15:11legal, ethical, moral,
15:12you know what we're talking about.
15:13Legal, ethical, moral.
15:14You're on camera.
15:16But other than that,
15:17it's what we do.
15:18Who's city is it, G?
15:20It's our city.
15:22What's the community do?
15:27As the federal agents
15:28faced off
15:29against the demonstrators,
15:30they began unleashing tear gas
15:32and other crowd-control weapons.
15:40The protest escalated.
15:49What you're witnessing
15:51in California
15:52is a full-blown assault
15:53on peace,
15:54on public order,
15:55and a national sovereignty
15:57carried out
15:58by rioters
15:59bearing foreign flags
16:00with the aim
16:01of continuing
16:02a foreign invasion
16:04of our country.
16:05We're not going to let that happen.
16:06Now,
16:07all streets!
16:08Our streets!
16:09All streets!
16:10Our streets!
16:11President Trump
16:12would quickly mobilize
16:13the National Guard.
16:16Extraordinary images
16:17out of Los Angeles tonight.
16:18Hundreds of National Guard troops
16:20now on the ground,
16:22deployed by President Trump,
16:24even though state leaders
16:25say they didn't ask for them
16:26and don't want them there.
16:28National Guard, I believe!
16:30National Guard, I believe!
16:32The administration cited vandalism
16:35and attacks on agents.
16:37What we have seen transpire
16:39in Los Angeles, California,
16:41in recent days,
16:42is shameful.
16:43Left-wing radicals
16:44waving foreign flags
16:46viciously attacked
16:47ICE and Border Patrol agents,
16:48as well as Los Angeles police officers.
16:51The mob violence
16:52is being stomped out.
16:53The criminals responsible
16:54will be swiftly brought to justice.
16:57And the Trump administration's operations
16:58to arrest illegal aliens
17:00are continuing unabated.
17:03On the ground,
17:05Bovino defended the operation.
17:07As for the violence
17:08and the demonstrators,
17:11violence will not deter us,
17:13the CBP mission
17:14here in Los Angeles.
17:18We know how to bring about peace,
17:21and peace begins
17:23with ICE leaving Los Angeles.
17:28Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass
17:30told me she was caught off guard
17:32by what happened.
17:33Well, I will tell you,
17:35when the first raids happened,
17:36it felt like, as a city,
17:38we just got punched in the gut
17:40for no reason.
17:42It just came out of nowhere.
17:44And it was a feeling of, like,
17:46the city being invaded.
17:47But it was an invasion
17:49of our own government
17:50against us.
17:55You had men
17:57jumping out of cars
17:58with rifles.
18:00They're going to come
18:01to attack us.
18:02Look.
18:03What are you talking about?
18:05With very dubious signage
18:07our uniforms,
18:11everybody was horrified
18:15and outraged
18:16by the aggression.
18:19It was becoming clear
18:21that this wasn't just
18:22an immigration operation.
18:24It was evolving
18:25into something different.
18:27The federal government
18:28was also cracking down
18:29on demonstrators
18:30and arresting them
18:32in large numbers.
18:34One of those arrests,
18:36down the street
18:37from a corner store
18:38in East L.A.,
18:39caught my attention.
18:40Hi.
18:41Can we see the footage?
18:43The video?
18:44Yeah.
18:44Yeah?
18:45So this is from
18:46the raid this morning.
18:47And this looks like
18:48National Guard troops,
18:50eight to 12 of them,
18:51pulling up in two vans
18:53to about 5.52 in the morning.
18:55They put a cordon
18:56across the street
18:57and they're blocking
18:58the street.
18:59And then our understanding
19:00is behind that,
19:01they're arresting somebody
19:03who was involved
19:03in the protests.
19:04The FBI is arresting them.
19:06The man they arrested
19:08was Alejandro Oriana,
19:10a Marine Corps veteran
19:11who was part of a group
19:12that had been
19:13protesting the raids.
19:15It was like almost exactly
19:16at 6 in the morning.
19:18Suddenly I hear like
19:19man over a loudspeaker
19:21call my name,
19:22telling me that
19:24it's the FBI
19:26and that I need
19:27to come outside.
19:28They already have like
19:29their guns out.
19:30They throw the flashbangs in,
19:31and they still break down
19:32the front door
19:32and they detain my family
19:34for like an hour.
19:35But you know,
19:36I think to them it's like,
19:37well, this guy's
19:38former military.
19:39So like he has the training
19:40to like evade us
19:42or whatever.
19:43There was like over like
19:44more than two dozen
19:45like National Guardsmen
19:47just like lined up
19:48on my street
19:48as they were driving me off.
19:50It's like,
19:50who do you think
19:51you're dealing with?
19:51Like I'm not like Rambo
19:53or anything.
19:54Lots of people
19:55wearing masks
19:56just in case there is
19:57more clashes with police.
19:59It all stemmed
20:00from a news video
20:01in the early days
20:02of the protests.
20:03We have people right now,
20:04look at this,
20:04dropping off food and water.
20:06What are those boxes?
20:07Are those masks?
20:08That doesn't look like food and water.
20:09Yeah, those are...
20:10It looks like masks.
20:10Yeah, no,
20:11those are masks.
20:12A bunch of us
20:14took it upon ourselves
20:16to, you know,
20:17go downtown
20:18and give out these resources,
20:22the food, water,
20:23and of course the PPE.
20:25I don't put on a mask
20:26unless you have a plan
20:27of not wanting somebody
20:28to see your face.
20:30Oriana was soon identified
20:31as the driver of the truck.
20:33Americans have to get organized.
20:36And targeted
20:36by the conspiracy theorist
20:38Alex Jones.
20:39She saw the man
20:40handing out the thousands
20:42of dollars of face shields.
20:43And then by the Trump administration.
20:46You will see boxes
20:47and boxes
20:47of very professionalized masks
20:50and rioting equipment
20:51being dropped off
20:52for these protesters.
20:53So it's a good question
20:54the president is raising
20:55and one we are looking into
20:56about who is funding
20:58these insurrectionists
21:00and these rioters
21:01and these protesters
21:02and these illegal criminals.
21:03They're kidnapping people.
21:05I, National Guard,
21:06let me my...
21:08The morning after
21:09the press conference
21:11Oriana was arrested
21:12on charges
21:13including conspiracy
21:15a charge often used
21:16for organized crime rings
21:18and drug syndicates.
21:20The acting U.S. attorney
21:22Bill Assaylee
21:23was on the scene
21:24promoting the raid
21:25to a Fox News crew
21:27that had been given
21:27exclusive access.
21:29We have made it
21:30a huge priority
21:30to try to identify,
21:32locate, and arrest
21:33those who are involved
21:34in organizing,
21:36supporting, funding,
21:37or facilitating
21:39these riots
21:40that they're going on.
21:41Neither Assaylee
21:42nor anyone
21:43from the Trump administration
21:44would talk to us
21:46about Oriana's arrest
21:47or the overall operation
21:49in L.A.
21:52Six weeks later,
21:54the charges against Oriana
21:56were dropped
21:57without any public explanation.
22:00One of the reasons
22:01why I feel like
22:01they dropped the case
22:02is because they looked
22:04at the case,
22:05they took a hard look,
22:06and especially like
22:07these more experienced
22:08prosecutors
22:09were able to convince
22:10Bill Assaylee
22:11that, you know,
22:12you're not going to win.
22:14Like, it's a ridiculous case.
22:16Like, masks?
22:17They're not even...
22:18Like, you can't assault
22:20someone with a mask.
22:21And your feeling
22:22is you were targeted.
22:23Why?
22:23I mean, it's not just
22:25my feeling, you know.
22:26It's not because of the masks.
22:28It's because you're an activist.
22:31One of the cases
22:32we're looking into
22:33involves Alejandro Oriana.
22:35Yes.
22:36I sat down
22:36with Cuauhtemoc Ortega,
22:38the chief federal defender
22:39for Los Angeles
22:40and the surrounding areas.
22:42He represented Oriana.
22:45The acting U.S. attorney here,
22:48Bill Assaylee,
22:49seemed to portray
22:50your client
22:51as like a kingpin
22:53of this vast conspiracy
22:54to foment riots.
22:56What did you think
22:57of those statements?
22:58I thought
22:59they were pretty inaccurate.
23:01My client...
23:02Our investigation
23:03and our trial defense
23:04would have shown
23:05that our client
23:06didn't engage
23:06in anything of that sort,
23:08that this whole situation
23:10was blown completely
23:11out of proportion
23:12and there was no conspiracy.
23:15And I think that
23:16we would have succeeded
23:17at trial.
23:18And my guess is
23:19that's why the case
23:19was dismissed.
23:22We looked at 116 cases
23:25in California
23:26like Oriana's,
23:28U.S. citizens
23:29who were arrested
23:29in protests
23:30or bystanders
23:32who'd been observing
23:32the immigration agents.
23:35Many of those cases
23:36are still ongoing
23:37and to be sure,
23:39some defendants
23:40have been convicted
23:40of violent crimes.
23:42But more than 40 cases
23:44have fallen apart,
23:45with prosecutors
23:47dropping charges
23:48or juries acquitting defendants.
23:53Ortega's office
23:54has represented
23:55the defendants
23:55in most of those cases.
23:58Cases started getting dismissed
24:00or started getting reduced
24:01to misdemeanors.
24:02That was very confusing
24:04for us at the beginning
24:05because we would read
24:06the press statements,
24:07we'd see the social media posts
24:09and we were expecting
24:10a case that was serious
24:12and then we would get
24:13the evidence,
24:14we would review it
24:15and we would see
24:16something else.
24:17Had you seen something
24:18like that before?
24:19No, this is very unusual
24:20to have a complaint filed
24:22where there's factual ambiguities
24:26that eventually result
24:28in problems
24:29for the government's case.
24:31That's not common.
24:35Greg Bovino would continue
24:37leading immigration operations
24:39in L.A. through the summer.
24:41Now we're here making
24:43Los Angeles a safer place.
24:45If you've been in policing
24:48as I have for many years,
24:51you come to realize
24:52that protests,
24:54civil disorder of various kinds
24:56are part of the territory
24:58that you have to deal with.
25:00Chris Magnus oversaw Bovino
25:03when he was head of Customs
25:04and Border Protection
25:05during the Biden administration.
25:07He's one of those guys
25:10that I sort of learned
25:12as a chief there,
25:14you go into a room
25:16and there's always somebody
25:18like the provocateur,
25:20the guy that's not afraid
25:21to ask the tough questions
25:23to take the chief on.
25:25In the Border Patrol sector
25:27chief meetings,
25:28he was that guy.
25:31He told me he was concerned
25:33that Bovino and his forces
25:34were actually instigating
25:36some of the unrest in L.A.
25:38I think there's evidence of that
25:41clearly in terms of
25:42some of the videos he made
25:44and some of the ways he,
25:45you know,
25:48ginned up his troops.
25:50And they were treated like troops.
25:51I shouldn't even,
25:52you know,
25:53it's sad that I would even refer
25:54to them in that way.
25:56There are always some protesters
25:58in any group
25:59that take it too far
26:01that probably will need
26:03to be arrested.
26:04But the smart thing to do
26:06is you have a specific group
26:09of officers who are trained
26:11to be able to go into a crowd
26:13and extract those individuals,
26:16but to do it in a way
26:17that doesn't inflame
26:19the entire group.
26:21But by September,
26:23tensions were only rising.
26:25We're just getting this news.
26:27Conservative activist
26:28Charlie Kirk has been shot.
26:30Wow, this is unbelievable.
26:32Pray for him right now.
26:33Enough is enough.
26:34The killing of Charlie Kirk
26:35prompted a wave of harsh rhetoric
26:37from the Trump administration.
26:39We have to talk
26:40about this incredibly
26:41destructive movement.
26:43Left-wing radicals
26:45and they will be held accountable.
26:46And it must stop right now.
26:49And it would set the tone
26:50as the administration's
26:51immigration sweeps
26:53moved on to a new city,
26:55Chicago.
26:57The Department of Homeland Security
26:59says it has begun
27:01Operation Midway Blitz
27:03targeting Chicago
27:04and the state of Illinois.
27:06Governor Pritzker
27:07estimates some 200 ICE agents
27:09and 100 vehicles
27:11are positioned in and around
27:12the city of Chicago.
27:14go.
27:19Hey, you speak English?
27:21How long have you been
27:22in the United States, sir?
27:24You're back.
27:2425.
27:2525, yeah.
27:2725, yeah.
27:2835 years.
27:29Yeah.
27:31Get the f*** out!
27:33F*** you!
27:34You're not in America!
27:35F*** you!
27:37Get the f*** out!
27:41You guys just roll up
27:43on the first Asian dude
27:44you saw?
27:44Yeah.
27:46Stop f***ing!
27:47You can't help me!
27:49As in L.A.
27:51F*** your eyes f***ing Trump!
27:53The agents met
27:54fierce resistance here.
27:56Yeah, I got it
27:56in front of your face!
27:58What about you?
27:58You have your documentation?
28:00It doesn't call me, sir.
28:00It doesn't call me, I'm in,
28:01or what?
28:02I'm a Calvino!
28:05You see it!
28:07Calvino,
28:07whatever his name is.
28:09You're a f***.
28:09Oh my God, she's watching you!
28:11Greg Bovino had been
28:12given a new title,
28:14Commander-at-Large
28:15for Immigration Operations.
28:16How long have you
28:17done the concrete?
28:19Uh, eight, eight years.
28:21Eight years?
28:22Wow, I can tell
28:23you do a good job.
28:24I wish I could write
28:25my name in the cement there.
28:27I wanted to interview
28:28Bovino about what
28:29I'd been seeing here
28:30in Chicago
28:32and in L.A.
28:35You tell us anything
28:37about what's going on today?
28:38Oh, it's just, uh,
28:40uh, it's called
28:41Title 8 Immigration
28:42Enforcement.
28:42Okay, are you just
28:43stopping people
28:44who are doing yard work
28:45or people who have
28:46brown skin?
28:46Title 8 Immigration
28:47Enforcement.
28:48Okay.
28:49C4, those are good.
28:53All right.
28:54Thanks, that'll do it.
28:54Hey, thank you, sir.
28:55I appreciate it.
28:56You have a good day.
28:57Hey, Commander,
28:57we'd love to arrange
28:58an interview for PBS.
28:59What's the best way
29:00to do that?
29:00Hey, uh,
29:01if you would notify
29:01our public affairs officer.
29:03What's your name again?
29:04It's A.C. Thompson.
29:05Nice to meet you, bro.
29:06I would keep trying
29:07to get an interview
29:08with him and others
29:09at the agency.
29:11Border patrol agents,
29:13they don't wake up
29:13in the morning and say,
29:14well, let me see
29:15who I can hurt today.
29:16I was able to speak
29:18to Art Del Cueto,
29:19a retired border patrol agent
29:21and former spokesman
29:23for the border patrol union.
29:25The kind of thing
29:26we're seeing is,
29:27you know,
29:27we're following the convoy
29:29of border patrol agents
29:30and they're stopping
29:31at the person
29:32doing landscaping
29:33and they're stopping
29:34at the person
29:35doing construction
29:36work on a house.
29:37Then they're rolling
29:38through a strip mall
29:39and the first person
29:40they see who's not white
29:42ends up in a vehicle.
29:45And I think that's the thing
29:46that a lot of Americans
29:47find concerning.
29:49Well, I mean,
29:51they're arresting it
29:52based on intel
29:53that they have.
29:54You're not going to go
29:55into, you know,
29:57a lawyer or attorney
29:58building and start,
30:00you know,
30:00hey, maybe these guys
30:01because, you know,
30:01they've actually,
30:03they have a status.
30:04You know,
30:04you go into areas
30:05where you realize
30:06that, you know,
30:08whatever crime
30:08you're looking for,
30:09that's the area
30:10of higher volume
30:11of those types
30:13of criminals.
30:14But I just,
30:14I don't see it as,
30:15hey, they're arresting
30:16brown people.
30:17And I think a lot
30:19of it gets overhyped.
30:20Nobody wants to focus
30:21on, no,
30:22we're arresting individuals
30:22because they've committed
30:23a crime
30:24or we're arresting
30:25individuals because
30:26they've circumvented
30:27immigration law.
30:28Del Cueto now works
30:30for a group that advocates
30:31for mass deportation.
30:33He told me he'd been
30:34in touch with agents
30:35in L.A. and Chicago.
30:37And many of them said,
30:38look, there was times
30:39we were in neighborhoods
30:39and we were surrounded.
30:41I spoke to one agent
30:42that said, you know,
30:43our vehicles,
30:45the tires were destroyed.
30:47There was so much chaos
30:48that when we came back
30:49into our vehicles
30:50to leave,
30:51the partner that I had
30:53in my group
30:53on the passenger,
30:55he was no longer there.
30:57Here in Broadview,
30:58we have had huge crowds
30:59of protesters coming out
31:00every Friday
31:01for the past month.
31:03The people united
31:04will never be defeated.
31:07The Chicago suburb
31:08of Broadview
31:09was the site
31:09of some of the most
31:10intense protests
31:11against the immigration
31:12sweeps.
31:13You're here protecting them.
31:15You know this shit's wrong.
31:16You know it's wrong.
31:17On the morning
31:18of October 3rd,
31:20about 200 demonstrators
31:21gathered in front
31:22of an immigration
31:23processing center.
31:24Homeland Security Secretary
31:26Kristi Noem
31:27at the ICE Processing Center
31:28this morning.
31:29Department of Homeland
31:30Security Secretary
31:31Kristi Noem
31:32was on the scene,
31:33accompanied by
31:34her own video team.
31:35Just wanting to show
31:36everybody exactly
31:37how nice it is out here.
31:39As was Benny Johnson,
31:41a pro-Trump influencer
31:43showcasing the operation.
31:44You look at these
31:45protesters out here,
31:46they don't care about America.
31:47They don't care about freedom.
31:48They don't care about
31:49what this country is
31:51and how special it is.
31:52We're going to remind them, too.
31:56Johnson showed Bovino
31:58preparing to confront
31:59the angry crowd.
32:00That crowd there
32:01is an unsafe crowd
32:04on either side.
32:05We're going to roll
32:06all the way out of here.
32:07And when they resist,
32:09what happens?
32:11They get arrested.
32:13We need to protect!
32:14We need to protect!
32:15We need to protect!
32:17We need to protect!
32:17We need to protect!
32:18We need to protect!
32:19We need to protect!
32:19For me as an elected official,
32:21it was important for me
32:22to be present,
32:22to witness what's happening.
32:23Juan Munoz came to the protest
32:26from a neighboring suburb.
32:28Tell me about October 3rd.
32:30Take me through
32:30what happened that day.
32:32Yeah, and so
32:32federal agents
32:34started to gather
32:35near the fence
32:36and started marching
32:38towards the protesters.
32:44The Illinois State Police
32:45were kind of maintaining us
32:46in the free speech zone
32:48in which we were
32:49allowed to be.
32:50Kyle Frankovich was a
32:52protester in the crowd
32:53that day.
32:53Get the f**k out of our state,
32:55you f*****g scat!
32:57Gregory Bovino,
32:58he's in charge
32:59of the facility there.
33:01He started to yell
33:02at the crowd,
33:02saying,
33:03we're going to clear you out.
33:04Hey, listen,
33:05you got one warning,
33:06one warning, f*****g!
33:07Bovino says,
33:08I'm a f*****g assembly!
33:10Everybody will move
33:11down the block
33:12into the right
33:12or you're going to f*****g arrest me!
33:14And as soon as he turned back
33:15to his own agents,
33:16he said,
33:17okay, start to arrest them.
33:18He is threatening
33:19to arrest everybody
33:20if we don't move.
33:21It's happening right now.
33:21They start pushing people
33:23off of where
33:25Illinois State Police
33:26had told us,
33:28like, you can be here.
33:30Cole Sheridan was also there,
33:33seen in footage
33:34wearing a white bike helmet.
33:35They start yelling at us,
33:38move back,
33:39move back
33:39or you'll get arrested.
33:41And people started
33:43to move back,
33:43but that's when
33:44they started to grab
33:45folks from the crowd.
33:46Game on now!
33:47Hey!
33:48Let's go!
33:49Wait, wait, wait,
33:50wait, wait!
33:52I was holding my phone
33:53and had my hands up.
33:54There was no aggression,
33:56but I felt somebody
33:58be taken down behind me.
34:00You want to do it?
34:02I tried to sidestep it
34:03and as soon as I moved
34:05to the side,
34:06I felt somebody
34:06grab my shoulder
34:07and pulled me to the ground.
34:08You guys are f*****g fascists!
34:10What the f*****g?
34:10And once I fell
34:11onto my back,
34:12that's when I saw
34:13it was Greg Bovino.
34:14And he told me,
34:15turn over on your stomach,
34:15you're under arrest.
34:18And as I was turning,
34:19I was telling him
34:20and whoever, you know,
34:21he told to arrest me
34:22that I was an elected official.
34:24And, you know,
34:25that met with no response
34:27and they took me away
34:28into the parking lot.
34:30Grab your job!
34:32There are people behind me.
34:33I can't move back.
34:34They're pushing me.
34:36Move back!
34:39Then I see the person
34:41next to me get grabbed
34:42and pulled down.
34:44I try to pick him up.
34:45I get pushed over
34:47by two agents,
34:48end up on top
34:49of this person.
34:50I have to kind of
34:51push myself up
34:52to let him out
34:53from under me,
34:53but there's already
34:54two or three agents
34:55on top of me
34:55at this point.
34:57And they have their knee
34:58on my back.
35:00They're screaming at me,
35:02stop resisting,
35:03stop resisting.
35:04They pick me up
35:06and on my left arm
35:08I'm being held
35:09by this very worked up agent
35:12who immediately starts
35:14shaking me by the arm
35:17and saying,
35:18stop resisting,
35:19stop resisting.
35:20The agent on my other arm
35:22barks at this guy like,
35:24hey, you gotta calm down.
35:27Not long after Cole Sheridan,
35:29Kyle Frankovich
35:30was also arrested.
35:32Let him down!
35:33They violently grabbed my arms
35:35behind my back,
35:36zip-tied me,
35:36and then started marching me
35:38to where they were
35:38putting the other dozen
35:39or so of us
35:40who arrested that day.
35:43I'm asking,
35:44who's detaining me?
35:45What am I being detained for?
35:47Eventually,
35:48supervisor comes up
35:49and says,
35:50well, you,
35:51you, uh,
35:53attacked Greg Bovino.
35:54And I was like,
35:55who's that?
35:56She said,
35:57well, he's the head
35:58of Border Patrol.
35:59Did you think
35:59that you were doing anything
36:00that would lead
36:01to your arrest
36:02when you got grabbed?
36:03No.
36:04I don't know
36:05if I've ever experienced
36:08something truly that bizarre
36:11and absurd
36:12as, like,
36:13seeing a law enforcement agent
36:18concoct a narrative
36:21to arrest me,
36:23to press charges against me.
36:26and that
36:29was extremely unnerving.
36:31These are exactly
36:32the kind of people
36:33that we want to be
36:34pissing off.
36:35From the scene,
36:37Benny Johnson
36:37touted the arrest
36:38to his millions of followers.
36:40Probably about a dozen
36:41left-wing terrorists
36:43arrested
36:43for attacking
36:45police officers
36:46and ICE officers.
36:46These individuals
36:48assaulted ICE officers.
36:50Benny Johnson
36:50was embedded with ICE.
36:52He was filming
36:53and recording
36:53and streaming that day,
36:54and I can directly
36:55be seen
36:56in the video
36:56along with
36:56everybody else
36:57who's detained with
36:58as he describes us
36:59as being violent extremists
37:00who had assaulted
37:01federal officers.
37:02He made similar statements
37:03on his Twitter account
37:05as well
37:05with that video
37:07being shown
37:08with the posts.
37:09Of the 12 people
37:10arrested and shown
37:11in the video,
37:12only one was charged,
37:14Cole Sheridan.
37:15He was held
37:16for four days
37:17for allegedly
37:17assaulting Bovino,
37:19but prosecutors
37:20dropped the case
37:21after video
37:22contradicted the claims.
37:24If there hadn't been
37:25a bunch of cameras there,
37:27Benny Johnson,
37:27the right-wing influencer,
37:29Secretary Noem,
37:30if they hadn't been there,
37:31do you think
37:31he would have been arrested?
37:32It seems unlikely
37:35given
37:40how truly
37:42weak their case was.
37:44I would kind of imagine
37:46that a huge part
37:47of it was publicity.
37:48Another part of it
37:49was trying to terrify people
37:52and try to scare people
37:53away from protesting
37:54and speaking their mind.
37:56They're trying to stop us
37:57from protesting!
37:58Over the course of a month
38:00in the Chicago area,
38:01we found more than 100 people
38:03who'd been arrested
38:04as they participated
38:05in demonstrations
38:06or documented
38:08the immigration rates.
38:10Like in L.A.,
38:11a majority of the cases
38:13have been falling apart,
38:14with prosecutors
38:15dropping charges
38:16in at least 75 cases
38:18so far.
38:21In a statement,
38:22the U.S. Attorney's Office
38:23said that nearly all
38:24the cases
38:25were reactive arrests
38:26made by law enforcement
38:27in the field.
38:29And they said
38:30their willingness
38:30to be open-minded
38:31and dismiss cases
38:33reflected
38:33our commitment
38:34to do the right thing
38:36even when a crime
38:37was committed.
38:38They are saying
38:39things happened
38:40when they didn't happen
38:41and then hoping
38:43that prosecutors
38:43will, you know,
38:45move forward
38:45on those charges.
38:46And for the most part,
38:48prosecutors or not,
38:49I think in part
38:49because you have
38:50more video footage
38:51available than you did
38:52in the past
38:52and in part
38:53because prosecutors
38:55are aware
38:56that juries
38:57are not as quick
38:58to defer to federal law enforcement
39:00as they used to be.
39:01Watch out, watch out!
39:06Christy Lopez
39:07spent years investigating
39:09law enforcement misconduct
39:10for the Justice Department's
39:12Civil Rights Division.
39:13We showed her footage
39:14of the protests
39:15and arrests
39:16at Broadview.
39:17One of the things
39:18I think is how much
39:19like a war zone
39:20those places look
39:21and they don't need to be.
39:23These are people protesting
39:24an ICE facility.
39:25They don't have weapons.
39:27They are...
39:28There aren't that many of them.
39:29They appear to be
39:30peacefully protesting.
39:31Some civil disobedience
39:32sometimes,
39:33but very mild.
39:35Most departments
39:36have handled protests
39:37like this
39:37that have gone on
39:38for weeks,
39:39sometimes months,
39:40without that level
39:41of militaristic response.
39:42There is no threat
39:43in most of these instances.
39:45And you're using force
39:46that is at best
39:47possibly lethal
39:48to, you know,
39:49a force that can be
39:50quite likely lethal.
39:51Arrests!
39:52Arrests!
39:54Arrests!
39:55Arrests!
39:56Arrests!
39:57Arrests!
39:57Arrests!
39:57Bovino later spoke
39:58about the arrests
39:59at Broadview
40:00in a deposition
40:01for a federal lawsuit
40:02against him
40:03and DHS.
40:04I believe
40:05that all uses
40:06of force
40:07that I've seen
40:07and all arrests
40:09that I've seen
40:10have been more
40:10than exemplary.
40:12The federal judge
40:13in that case
40:14admonished Bovino
40:15and his agents
40:16for how they were operating
40:18and ordered limits
40:20on their use
40:21of tear gas
40:21and other weapons
40:23unless facing
40:24imminent physical threat.
40:27Yeah, Bovino,
40:28he was right there.
40:30Enrique Pahina
40:31was a witness
40:31in the case.
40:33They're the ones violent.
40:34They're the ones
40:34shooting tear gas
40:35into communities.
40:36They're the ones
40:37shooting pepper balls.
40:38He was filming
40:39immigration agents
40:40from his bike
40:41two weeks
40:42after the court order
40:43came down.
40:44There's like
40:44ten cars of them.
40:46They're all right there.
40:48The day that I got
40:50the pepper ball
40:51to the neck,
40:52everyone was just
40:53telling them to get out.
40:55Do you have video of it?
41:00It's right here.
41:04Was anybody
41:05throwing stuff at them?
41:06Was anybody
41:07hitting them
41:07with anything?
41:09Nope.
41:10Not at all.
41:11Everyone was just
41:12telling them to leave.
41:15That's you.
41:16And that's you getting it.
41:17Yep.
41:18And are you yelling anything
41:19or saying anything right there?
41:20You just filmed it.
41:21I didn't say
41:22a single word.
41:23You have your
41:23meta glasses on.
41:27The court order was eventually overturned
41:30and the restrictions lifted.
41:36The Border Patrol still wasn't granting me an interview.
41:39But as the operations were getting more violent,
41:43a source within DHS agreed to talk.
41:45If we concealed their identity.
41:47I think it's important the public knows
41:50that there's people out there
41:51who are also outraged
41:53at the operations being conducted,
41:57the way that agents,
42:00officers are behaving
42:02and conducting business.
42:04You know,
42:05you know you're in the wrong
42:06when thousands,
42:08hundreds,
42:09you know,
42:09people are coming out
42:10and yelling at you.
42:13I don't even tell people
42:14who I work for anymore
42:15because I'm ashamed of them.
42:18And do you think
42:18there's more people
42:19that feel the way you do?
42:22I know there is.
42:24At least a few,
42:25for sure.
42:26Do you think we're going to end up
42:27seeing any of these
42:29agents who may have engaged
42:30in misconduct
42:31held accountable?
42:33No.
42:34I don't.
42:34Not in this current administration.
42:39Hundreds of protests
42:40are underway
42:41or planned nationwide today
42:43in response
42:44to the deadly Minneapolis
42:45shooting of Renee Good
42:47by an ICE agent.
42:52So we're in Minneapolis.
42:54It's a few days
42:55after federal agents
42:57shot Renee Good.
42:58We're hearing
42:59that there's going to be
42:59more federal agents
43:00coming to town,
43:01like a thousand.
43:02That's what the news is saying.
43:04And trying to figure out
43:05what this is all
43:06going to look like.
43:07Rouse,
43:08we got to get out.
43:09Get out.
43:11Daily confrontations
43:12were going on
43:13between protesters
43:14and immigration agents.
43:20The White House
43:21today doubling down
43:22on their support
43:23for the operations.
43:31We were reporting
43:32in the neighborhood
43:33where Renee Good
43:34had been killed.
43:39What is that about?
43:42Agents were surrounding
43:43and questioning a man.
43:46Take your guns home!
43:48We don't want guns
43:49in our neighborhoods!
43:51We don't need that
43:52fucking hardware.
43:52It's ridiculous.
43:54People were coming
43:55out of their houses.
43:56Get the fuck out!
43:57You're not blind here!
44:00The agents started to leave.
44:02Get the fuck out of here!
44:03Move out!
44:03You'll hurt them!
44:04Bye!
44:07One protester
44:08was pepper sprayed
44:09in the face
44:09at close range.
44:19I spoke with the man
44:21they were questioning,
44:22Christian Molina.
44:24He said the officers
44:25had rammed his vehicle.
44:27They hit my car
44:28for no reason, man.
44:29They hit me.
44:29What happened?
44:30They followed me
44:31for no reason
44:31and hit my car.
44:33They looked at me
44:34and they decided
44:34to pull me over
44:35for no reason.
44:36You believe that?
44:37So you're going
44:38to have a Ford SUV?
44:39Yep.
44:40So they're my U.S. citizens.
44:42Suddenly...
44:43Oh, here.
44:43Careful.
44:45Someone threw a snowball
44:47in the direction
44:48of the agents.
44:50Oh, f**k!
44:59One of them tossed
45:00a tear gas canister
45:01into the crowd.
45:22I was hit three times.
45:36I got shot repeatedly
45:38with peppermint.
45:39Get your help.
45:39Get your help.
45:40Get your help.
45:41Get me some f**king words out.
45:43This is a f**king neighborhood.
45:45I was in the car
45:46and they threw the f**king
45:47underneath the f**king car.
45:49Yes!
45:50I can't see.
45:51Save on you!
45:53Hey!
45:53Get on me!
45:57Oh, f**king!
45:58I did help.
46:00As they left,
46:01an agent shot
46:02pepper spray
46:02from his window.
46:04Oh, oh, oh!
46:04Oh, oh!
46:04Oh, oh!
46:05Oh, oh!
46:07It hit my colleagues
46:08in the face.
46:09You need this?
46:10Yeah.
46:10Here.
46:11Give me the camera.
46:12Give me the camera.
46:13Give me the camera.
46:14All right.
46:15Water!
46:16I got water!
46:17Water!
46:18Was that straight?
46:19Well, they just
46:20spray for the music.
46:22In the months
46:23I'd been covering
46:24this story,
46:24I'd seen the same pattern
46:26everywhere we went.
46:28Federal agents
46:29using weapons
46:30like tear gas
46:30and pepper spray
46:31against protesters
46:33and bystanders.
46:34The courts
46:35would try to
46:36rein them in
46:36but they'd move
46:37on to the next city
46:38and do the same things.
46:41F**k!
46:46On local TV,
46:48Bovino was unapologetic.
46:50We're here to conduct
46:51that Title VIII mission.
46:52It won't stop.
46:55Despite rioters,
46:56agitators
46:57and vast amounts
46:58of violence
46:59against federal officers,
47:00we're not going to stop.
47:02I showed footage
47:03from the scene
47:03to Christy Lopez.
47:05You're tear-gassed
47:06in a f**king neighborhood!
47:07People live here!
47:10You see just
47:12use of excessive force
47:13after use of excessive force.
47:15In no scenario
47:16is it okay
47:16to be pepper spraying people
47:17as you're leaving
47:19the scene.
47:20It's just
47:21they're mad,
47:22they're scared,
47:23you know,
47:24they're able
47:24to get away with it
47:25so they're just
47:26using the power
47:27they have
47:27to use force
47:29against people.
47:30I also showed
47:32our footage
47:32to Chris Magnus.
47:38It's pretty awful.
47:41You know,
47:42I mean,
47:43one of the things
47:44in policing
47:45when it comes
47:46to use of force,
47:49it's proportionality.
47:51Is the force
47:52really proportional
47:54to what you're,
47:56what you're receiving
47:58or what you're dealing with.
48:00People may well
48:01get under your skin
48:02under a lot
48:02of circumstances.
48:04You don't like it,
48:05but professionals
48:06don't react to it.
48:07This is what
48:08our country has become.
48:10Take off your vest,
48:12walk away,
48:13and say that you
48:13will not allow
48:14this to ruin
48:16our country.
48:16You have a chance
48:18to rectify this.
48:19You have a chance
48:20to do right
48:20by your country
48:21that you're so proud of.
48:22Bovino never ended up
48:24doing an interview
48:24with me.
48:30The Trump administration
48:32was continuing
48:33to express support
48:34for how the operations
48:35were being conducted.
48:37To all ICE officers,
48:38you have federal immunity
48:40in the conduct
48:40of your duties.
48:41They reposted comments
48:43by Trump's advisor,
48:44Stephen Miller.
48:45You have immunity
48:46to perform your duties,
48:48and no one,
48:49no city official,
48:50no state official,
48:51no illegal alien,
48:52no leftist agitator
48:54or domestic insurrectionist
48:56can prevent you
48:57from fulfilling
48:58your legal obligations
48:59and duty.
49:00Ready?
49:01Yep, let's do it.
49:04We are asking
49:05this federal government
49:07to stop
49:08the unconstitutional conduct
49:10that is invading
49:11our streets
49:11each and every day.
49:13I met with
49:14Minneapolis Mayor
49:15Jacob Fry
49:16as he and other
49:18Minnesota leaders
49:19announced a lawsuit
49:20they hoped would end
49:21the crackdown.
49:22We've got about
49:23600-plus police officers
49:26in the city of Minneapolis,
49:27and ICE and border control
49:29is coming in here
49:30with approximately
49:323,000 or more.
49:34And so this is
49:35massively disproportionate.
49:37We've been in the streets
49:38here.
49:39It is tense.
49:40Are you worried
49:41that more people
49:42are going to be hurt
49:43or killed?
49:44Yes.
49:4912 days later,
49:5137-year-old ICU nurse
49:54Alex Preddy
49:55tries to intervene
49:57as federal agents
49:58knock a woman down.
50:00Whoa!
50:02They repeatedly
50:02pepper spray him.
50:12He's pinned on the ground.
50:18Video shows an agent
50:20removing a legally-owned
50:21handgun
50:22that Preddy had
50:23in a holster.
50:25Then...
50:3110 shots.
50:32What the f*** did you
50:34just do?
50:35What the f*** did you
50:37just do?
50:38What the f***?
50:41This looks like
50:42a situation
50:42where an individual
50:44wanted to do
50:45maximum damage
50:46and massacre
50:48law enforcement.
50:49Alex Preddy's killing
50:51was a turning point.
50:52You are so evil!
50:55Sworn declarations
50:56were submitted
50:57in federal court
50:58by people who say
50:58they witnessed
50:59the fatal shooting
51:00of Alex Preddy.
51:01they contradict
51:02the version
51:02of events
51:03presented by
51:03federal officials.
51:05The U.S.
51:06Border Patrol
51:06commander at large
51:07has been demoted
51:08amid the fallout.
51:10Greg Bovino
51:11would quickly
51:11be dismissed.
51:12President Trump
51:13facing growing scrutiny
51:14within his own party
51:15over how this
51:16immigration crackdown
51:17is being handled.
51:18And amid political
51:20pressure
51:20that now included
51:21Republicans,
51:22the president
51:23sent border czar
51:24Tom Homan
51:25to Minneapolis.
51:27I'm not here
51:27because the federal
51:30government has
51:31carried its mission
51:31out perfectly.
51:33President Trump
51:34and I,
51:34along with others
51:35in the administration,
51:35have recognized
51:37that certain improvements
51:38could and should be made.
51:40That's exactly
51:41what I'm doing here.
51:44Even though Gregory Bovino
51:45is gone,
51:45I wonder if his imprint
51:46will last through
51:48all the federal agencies
51:49that are continuing
51:49to go out in the street.
51:50I wonder
51:50if anything will change,
51:53really.
51:53He was the one
51:55who was the tip
51:56of the spear
51:56for this new type
51:57of immigration enforcement
51:58across the country.
52:0065% say
52:02Immigration and Customs
52:03Enforcement
52:04has gone too far.
52:06The mass sweeps
52:07and violent clashes
52:09have subsided for now.
52:11But immigration arrests
52:13continue in large numbers.
52:17And in cities
52:18around the country,
52:20there are deep scars.
52:24and fear
52:25about what lies ahead.
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52:39would quickly mobilize
52:40the National Guard.
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