CHICAGO CITY HALL (WBBM Newsradio) - Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson says a federal judge's moves to step up oversight of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area ... are a start.
District judge Sara Ellis on Tuesday ordered Border Patrol enforcement chief Greg Bovino to meet with her every weekday until at least November 5, and ordered him to produce all use-of-force reports from agents since the start of Operation Midway Blitz by October 31.
"Well, it's a start," said Mayor Johnson as he spoke to reporters at City Hall, continuing that "I don't know if there's anything that's going to assuage my apprehension or even quite frankly my rejection of their approach."
The mayor was also skeptical about Bovino's statements in court, saying that the Trump Administration has shown a "proclivity" to lie: "I'm not sure that anything we hear from will reflect ... truth?"
Johnson also noted that Operation Midway Blitz has gone far beyond the Trump Administration's claim that it was targeting what it described as the worst of the worst.
"Bovino is a barbaric individual, and I just hope that this judge can bring some level of accountability, because that's not what's happening right now," the mayor said.