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What Happened Today – November 20, 2025

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino in tactical vest walks with armed law enforcement and military personnel outside Broadview, Illinois, ICE detention facility

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino (center) at Broadview ICE facility led operations federal judges later found included lies and illegal prosecutions. (Paul Goyette, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

The authoritarian machine exists, but institutions are gumming up its works. Chicago and DC grand juries are refusing indictments. Federal judges are blocking illegal deployments and dismissing prosecutions with sharp rebukes. Civil rights groups keep winning in court. Meanwhile, a flailing Trump threatened to execute six Democratic lawmakers for telling troops they can refuse illegal … Read more