U.S. Border Patrol chief 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 afterwards

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.

“I just felt compelled to be there,” Sheridan says.

The protest was calm until a convoy of federal vehicles paraded th

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