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Federal judge torches Trump’s immigration cops — says their “use of force shocks the conscience.” And it gets better...
In a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown, a federal judge in Chicago has issued a sweeping injunction against the Department of Homeland Security, accusing federal agents of lying, attacking civilians, and violating the Constitution.
Judge Sara L. Ellis, a respected Obama appointee, ruled that Trump’s so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” unleashed weapons of war on American streets against journalists, clergy, and peaceful protesters. Her words were blistering: “The use of force shocks the conscience.”
For weeks, Chicago residents have lived under siege as federal immigration agents fired tear gas, pepper balls, and chemical weapons into crowds — even at people praying and recording video. The judge found that Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino lied under oath about being hit by a rock before ordering tear gas into a crowd in Little Village. No video ever showed it. When pressed, Bovino admitted he made it up.
And it gets worse…
Body camera footage showed agents mocking protesters, laughing as they fired tear gas, and shouting, “throw another one… for fun!” Ellis’s ruling now forces federal agents to wear body cameras, identify themselves clearly, and give two warnings before using any force — because Trump’s troops apparently needed to be reminded of basic human rights.
Civil rights lawyers were blunt: they said the federal agents were using gas banned in war, inciting violence, and then using the chaos they created as justification for even more violence. Even a Chicago alderwoman testified that she saw agents rolling tanks through neighborhoods, guns pointed at families.
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security chief reportedly told the agents to “go hard” at dissenters — and they obeyed. But Judge Ellis wasn’t having it. She opened her ruling by reading Carl Sandburg’s poem “Chicago,” celebrating the city’s spirit, then declared Trump’s portrayal of it as “a vice hold of violence” flatly untrue.
In response to the excesses of Bovino’s Border Patrol goons — and to the lies the agency tried to promulgate in court testimony — Judge Ellis said that she was issuing a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying that their unlawful behavior on the streets “shows no signs of stopping.”
This is what Trump’s America looks like: border agents lying under oath, attacking clergy and journalists, and gassing peaceful citizens — until a federal judge had to step in and remind them what justice and decency look like.
Trump’s law-and-order façade just got torn to shreds by the very law he tried to twist. Judge Ellis said it best: “The use of force shocks the conscience.” This is Trump’s America — where justice must step in to stop his regime from gassing its own people.
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