Gregory Bovino, commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, is criticizing a WBEZ and Sun-Times report about comments he made Sunday in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

Bovino spoke to reporter Chip Mitchell as the commander led dozens of agents on a patrol in which they made several immigration arrests. Bovino said in the interview his team was choosing people to arrest based partly on “how they look.”

Those remarks led Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to accuse Bovino’s forces of “harassing people for not being white.”

In an interview with NewsNation , Bovino said his comments were taken out of context and were “grossly inaccurate.”

Below is a transcript of Sunday’s interview. The interview, recorded on an iPhone, includes background noise from the crowd. Listen to the unedited aud

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