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highplainsdem

(60,731 posts)
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:43 PM 8 hrs ago

Greg Bovino pushed back against ICE order for 'targeted' arrests during Chicago raids: report

Source: Independent

Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told Bovino to focus on “targeted operations” in Chicago and arrest only people already on federal law enforcement’s radar for immigration violations and other laws, according to the messages.

But Bovino said he “declined” the directive and said he reports to a top aide for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Mr. Lyons seemed intent that CBP conduct targeted operations for at least two weeks before transitioning to full scale immigration enforcement,” Bovino wrote in an email to Homeland Security officials in September. “I declined his suggestion. We ended the conversation shortly thereafter.”

He said that Lyons indicated he “was in charge,” but Bovino said he reports to Corey Lewandowski, an unpaid special government employee working closely with Noem.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/greg-bovino-trump-ice-chicago-arrests-b2913321.html

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Greg Bovino pushed back against ICE order for 'targeted' arrests during Chicago raids: report (Original Post) highplainsdem 8 hrs ago OP
"Sorry, pal, I report to the Secretary's boyfriend, not my direct superior at CBP" Prairie Gates 8 hrs ago #1
Explains a lot duckworth969 4 hrs ago #2

Prairie Gates

(7,485 posts)
1. "Sorry, pal, I report to the Secretary's boyfriend, not my direct superior at CBP"
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 03:53 PM
8 hrs ago


Trumpworld is a clown show.

duckworth969

(1,296 posts)
2. Explains a lot
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 07:41 PM
4 hrs ago

Bovino was literally getting his marching orders from Lewandowski. Off the books ghoul creating cruel policy. Sounds about right 😡

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