* Border Patrol is back…
* Tribune…
The agents also targeted a Teamsters picket line near Midway International Airport Tuesday morning, according to a representative for the union.
Nico Coronado, an attorney for Teamsters Local 705, said Border Patrol agents showed up to the picket line at 5507 S. Archer Ave. and asked workers — most of whom are Latino, and many of whom are immigrants — for identification. Coronado said he did not believe any workers were detained.
The Teamsters struck another plant owned by that company this year, partly because of dangerous working conditions, but also because the owners wouldn’t agree to preventing immigration authorities from entering the private business without a judicial warrant.
* Gov. Pritzker today…
Some of you may or may not have heard that the Customs and Border Patrol and its leader, Gregory Bovino, are back in Chicago as of this morning. We were not given any notice by them, and they seem to already be deploying, again with masks and unmarked cars and SUVs into neighborhoods. They call it enforcement. We call it harassment, but we don’t know how long they’ll stay. It appears that they’re here for at least a couple of days, if not longer. So I encourage everyone who can hear me to do as you have, because frankly, I’m very proud of the way that Illinoisans have reacted to CBP and ICE and that’s in pulling out your whistles and your phones, video, everything posted online.
We have an Illinois Accountability Commission that is now taking testimony. Has a hearing on Thursday. I invite Gregory Bovino to testify at the Illinois Accountability Commission. He has some questions that he needs to answer for and we’ll move forward as we need to to protect the people of Illinois.
From the Illinois Accountability Commission’s website…
The purpose of the Commission, housed within the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), is to create a public record of the conduct of federal agents during “Operation Midway Blitz” and the Trump Administration’s military-style operations throughout the Chicagoland area. Additionally, the Commission will examine the impact of that conduct on individuals and communities and consider policy recommendations to prevent future harm in Illinois.
- Candy Dogood - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 1:02 pm:
===The agents also targeted a Teamsters picket line===
Hopefully this kind of experience will serve to inform the Teamsters when they consider their endorsements going forward.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 1:10 pm:
If JB can get Bovino to testify, the’ll need a gong button to highlight the lies and headphones to muffle the sound of the constant lie alarms.
- ArchPundit - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 1:20 pm:
==If JB can get Bovino to testify, the’ll need a gong button to highlight the lies and headphones to muffle the sound of the constant lie alarms.
When he testifies, he seems to play to the press and cameras more and uses lots of police report language. I’m not sure much would come of it, but I think keeping him in the news is generally helpful to pushing back on these raids.
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 1:24 pm:
Bovino wasn’t going to be tricked into being rational.
- Think again - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 1:36 pm:
=The Teamsters struck another plant owned by that company this year,…but also because the owners wouldn’t agree to preventing immigration authorities from entering the private business without a judicial warrant=
The company, Industrial Container Services, chose not to interfere with federal agency activity. There is nothing in the NLRB that prevents private sector employers from doing this
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 2:22 pm:
How can anyone not draw parallels when ICE is going around asking people for their papers? I just don’t understand how any rational person is ok with this behavior.
- Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 2:28 pm:
I worked with guys like Bovino.
He’s got Dunning-Kruger in spades.
Then, one day, they get in the middle of something they are woefully underqualified to handle.
Because they don’t know what they don’t know, they give their accusers the exact amount of rope.
- Google is Your Friend - Tuesday, Dec 16, 25 @ 2:28 pm:
==Teamsters==
I’m sure we’ll be hearing from Sean O’Brien any minute now.