Chip Mitchell
@chipmitchell1.bsky.social
WBEZ Chicago reporter on public safety and health.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
https://www.wbez.org/author/chip-mitchell
Mobile/Signal: 312-286-9986.
Captions and one-liners welcome.
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Captions and one-liners welcome.
Reposted by Chip Mitchell
That time ICE admitted to detaining people based on how they looked and then tied to pretend the journalist had just taken it out of context, causing said journalist to release the whole interview: bsky.app/profile/chip...
Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. #BorderPatrol, claims a @wbez.org/@chicago.suntimes.com report about his comments Sunday in downtown #Chicago was "grossly inaccurate" and taken out of context. So we've posted the interview's unedited AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT:
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Transcript: Gregory Bovino says arrestees in downtown Chicago chosen partly based on ‘how they look’
WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.
www.wbez.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
That time ICE admitted to detaining people based on how they looked and then tied to pretend the journalist had just taken it out of context, causing said journalist to release the whole interview: bsky.app/profile/chip...
Thanks, @tinamcw.bsky.social. I hadn't noticed.
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Thanks, @tinamcw.bsky.social. I hadn't noticed.