'Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump's Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection'
"Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official have all noticed the same thing: when the Trump administration wants to turn up the heat, they send in Gregory Bovino."
"Over the past year, Bovino, now a Customs and Border Patrol commander-at-large, has rocketed from an obscure posting in the California desert to the center of the Trump administration’s most aggressive and highest-profile enforcement actions. He has overseen many of the recent, large-scale federal deportation operations in big, blue-leaning cities — crackdowns that quickly (and, many suspect, by design) suck U.S. citizens, elected officials, and others into their vortex. You’ve heard about many of these showy operations: the ostentatious federal law enforcement march through Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park, a CBP operation outside of a Gavin Newsom press conference, clashes between the feds and peaceful protestors near an ICE detention facility in suburban Chicago."
"All of this is what makes Bovino uniquely suited to the administration’s demands. The Trump White House appears to be trying to push civil tensions into overdrive, staging military-style raids to conduct civil immigration arrests. Doing so requires these operations not only to take place in an aggressive manner, but for them to be broadcast to as many people as possible. Senior political appointees have used the operations to claim that the federal government is facing a kind of rebellion and that it is struggling to uphold the rule of law, potentially providing a pretext for sending in the National Guard under Title 10 — the statute the administration has already cited to deploy the military in three states — or to invoke the Insurrection Act."
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