U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino stood beside Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the immigration enforcement facility in Broadview on Oct. 3 as she gave dozens of his agents a pep talk, telling them it was time to “go hard” and “hammer” protesters.
The protesters included several Jewish faithful holding a pro-immigrant prayer circle. They also included a hospitality worker named Cole Sheridan, who was protesting in Broadview for the first time and planning to go to work afterward.
Sheridan, 27, was disturbed by the Chicago-area deportation blitz Bovino was leading and by “seeing people kidnapped off the street, dragged out of cars, taken from their jobs…