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The Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino’s directive to a group of federal agents to “arrest as many people that touch you as you want” was captured on video last June, just as the agents were beginning a large-scale immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area.
On June 7, the day the video was taken, protests erupted across the Los Angeles area in response.
The video, which was made public last year as part of a federal lawsuit over immigration enforcement in the Chicago area, resurfaced this week after Bovino was recalled from Minnesota. Federal agents in Minneapolis this month shot and killed two people, prompting the Trump administration to remove Bovino from command of the operation, amid an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign.
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