'Operation Catahoula Crunch' Begins In New Orleans

Bovino has historical past of violating court docket orders and mendacity about protest violence.
Administration claims crackdown targets ‘violent criminals’, regardless of most detainees having no prison data.
Protests and accusations of police brutality are anticipated, however authorities will seemingly aspect with brokers.

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Welp, the Trump administration’s huge (and massively oppressive) immigration crackdown tour continues to be on the highway. It’s subsequent cease? New Orleans.

That’s proper, y’all — from the individuals who gave you “Operation Halfway Blitz” in Chicago and “Operation Charlotte’s Internet” in Charlotte, N.C. — prepare for “Operation Catahoula Crunch,” which was introduced Wednesday by the Division of Homeland Safety, which, apparently, thinks it’s fairly amusing to give you cute and snappy however not very intelligent titles for operations that, as I’ve written earlier than, “separate households, upends individuals’s lives, detains and deports them with out due course of, and disappears them to nations that will or is probably not their nations of origin received’t make the Trump administration appear any much less evil.”

And who’s heading up the government-sanctioned civil rights violation tour in New Orleans? None aside from Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who was in command of the Chicago operation, which noticed huge protests, rebukes from metropolis and state leaders, and federal judges, and studies that the overwhelming majority of immigration detainees weren’t criminals.

Bovino additionally took cost throughout operations in Charlotte, which noticed huge protests, rebukes from metropolis and state leaders, and studies that the overwhelming majority of immigration detainees weren’t criminals.

The truth is, Bovino has been ripped to shreds a number of instances by federal judges for violating their orders limiting sure makes use of of drive and for mendacity about protest violence to justify it.

So, certain, go forward and ship him to a different metropolis to repeat the identical habits.

From CBS Information:

Bovino stated they’d be within the Massive Straightforward “till the mission is completed,” and that to this point they’ve arrested “rather a lot, and nonetheless counting.” There are “a number of hundred brokers” unfold throughout the New Orleans space, Bovino stated.

In a press release earlier Wednesday, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin stated the administration focused New Orleans due to native insurance policies that restrict cooperation between native legislation enforcement officers and federal immigration authorities.

“Catahoula Crunch targets embody violent criminals who have been launched after arrest for house invasion, armed theft, grand theft auto, and rape,” McLaughlin added. “Below President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem, we’re restoring legislation and order for the American individuals.”

The Trump administration seems to learn from the identical script in every single place its immigration enforcement operations journey. Ignoring its personal information that persistently exhibits greater than 70% of these detained by ICE and Border Patrol brokers had no prison data, the administration claims its immigration crackdown is about ridding these cities of “violent criminals.”

We will additionally anticipate that when the protests inevitably start, and brokers begin getting accused of police brutality towards civilians, authorities spokespeople who are usually not on the scenes of protests will take their brokers’ accounts at face worth and current them as truth when giving statements to the media. They usually’ll proceed to take action even when the courts discover that brokers and their DHS handlers are mendacity.

And rinse, and repeat.