U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, a leader of major immigration enforcement efforts around the United States, has been spotted back in the New Orleans metropolitan area on Friday (Dec. 19), according to multiple sources who saw him, accompanied by fellow immigration enforcement agents. This week, it was reported that Bovino and many Border Patrol agents had temporarily returned to Chicago.
St. Tammany Parish resident Jennifer said shortly after she pulled into the parking lot of the La Morenita Plus – a Latin American supermarket chain – grocery store on Gause Boulevard, two large SUVs drove into the same area. Bovino and other immigration enforcement agents exited the vehicles. Jennifer, who asked Verite News to conceal her last name because she fears being targeted by members of a hate group in her community who she said have harassed her in the past, said she began blowing a whistle when she saw the group of agents. Immigrants rights activists and their supporters have used whistles to alert community members of the presence of Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
According to Jennifer, she and Bovino had a brief and heated conversation regarding U.S. Border Patrol activity in Louisiana before the commander and accompanying agents got back in their vehicles and left the parking lot…