Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol’s agent in charge of Operation Catahoula Crunch in New Orleans, told Newsmax on Monday that no state has provided stronger cooperation than Louisiana, where joint teams have conducted large-scale arrests of criminal illegal aliens.
On “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Bovino said that federal officers are operating in what he called “the Big Hard”— a play on “the Big Easy,” New Orleans’ nickname — because state and local law enforcement have made it far tougher for fugitive criminal illegal immigrants to hide.
“We’re doing the job here in the Big Easy,” Bovino said. “As a matter of fact, we don’t call it the Big Easy. We call it the Big Hard for these criminal aliens. ICE, Border Patrol, and all those allied partners … are arresting criminal aliens by the dozens each day.”
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