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Ex-border patrol chief defends his record after exit: ‘I wish I’d caught more illegal aliens’

Greg Bovino says Trump’s immigration crackdown hasn’t gone far enough in exit interview with the New York Times As his retirement looms, Gregory Bovino, the US border patrol’s former commander-at-large, has contended that efforts to curb illegal immigration by Donald Trump’s administration have not gone far enough – showing no remorse over federal agents’ killings of two US citizens in Minneapolis in January. “I wish I’d caught even more illegal aliens,” he told the New York Times on Tuesday in an exit interview, during which he also referred to the Republican president as “the Trumpster” and acknowledged his retirement at the end of March was not entirely voluntary. “We went as hard as we could, but there’s always a creative and innovative solution to catching even more.” Bovino announced his retirement from the patrol earlier in March. He had spent most of his 30-year career in California’s El Centro sector before being tapped by the Trump administration to lead its sweeping Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Trump then demoted Bovino after federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in separate encounters in Janua

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Trump’s mass deportation plan has broken the quiet of small US towns: ‘We have to take care of each other’

Immigration agents have spread into rural western Wisconsin, taking dozens of people from towns in more politically conservative areas The Mexican restaurant where multiple workers were taken in February still sits dark, across the road…

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Trump’s mass deportation plan has broken the quiet of small US towns: ‘We have to take care of each other’

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Death of Rohingya refugee left in parking lot by US border agents ruled a homicide

Nurul Amin Shah, 56, who was visually impaired, was left outside Buffalo Tim Hortons on cold night and later died Authorities have ruled that the death of Nurul Amin Shah, a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar who…

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Why new and seasoned protesters alike say they came out to “No Kings” rallies across the country | CNN

Jean Fujiu’s choice to attend a “No Kings” rally in Chicago stemmed from her own family’s experience of injustice: Her parents were incarcerated in prison camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World…

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New York Times columnist tells liberal readers Trump's war with Iran is 'going better than you think'

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Retiring Border Patrol Chief Bovino says he wishes he ‘caught even more’ illegals

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Ex-border patrol chief defends his record after exit: ‘I wish I’d caught more illegal aliens’

Greg Bovino says Trump’s immigration crackdown hasn’t gone far enough in exit interview with the New York Times As his retirement looms, Gregory Bovino, the US border patrol’s former commander-at-large, has…

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Immigration agents have spread into rural western Wisconsin, taking dozens of people from towns in more politically conservative areas The Mexican restaurant where multiple workers were taken in February still sits dark, across the road…

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Nurul Amin Shah, 56, who was visually impaired, was left outside Buffalo Tim Hortons on cold night and later died Authorities have ruled that the death of Nurul Amin Shah, a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar who was left by…

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Jean Fujiu’s choice to attend a “No Kings” rally in Chicago stemmed from her own family’s experience of injustice: Her parents were incarcerated in prison camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World War II. “I grew up…

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