Border Commander Greg Bovino to Retire After Decades of Service
Border Commander Gregory Bovino is retiring at the end of the month after decades of service, according to CBS News.
Bovinio also told Breitbart News that he will retire after 30 years of service.
“The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced,” Bovino told Breitbart.
“Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling,” he said.
CBS News reported:
Outspoken Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino is retiring from federal service at the end of this month, after being pulled away from a high-profile role leading immigration raids in major U.S. cities, two sources directly familiar with his decision told CBS News on Monday.
Over the past years, Bovino, a longtime Border Patrol official, has been serving as the chief patrol agent of the El Centro sector along the California-Mexico border. But he quickly became a leading public face of the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration after he was deployed to cities across the U.S., to oversee sweeping and often controversial immigration raids.
Bovino and his team of green-uniformed Border Patrol agents were dispatched first to the Los Angeles area in June of last year. There, they conducted immigration arrest operations that sparked local outcry, including at Home Depot parking lots.
In September, Bovino and his agents were deployed to Chicago, followed by Charlotte, New Orleans and ultimately, Minneapolis. In all those cities, their operations came under scrutiny, with local residents and leaders denouncing them as heavy-handed and indiscriminate.
Border Patrol agents under Bovino’s commands were captured on video stopping people to ask for their immigration status, including because of the person’s accent.
In January Bovino and some federal immigration agents abruptly left Minnesota after two fatal officer-involved shootings.
CBS News previously reported that Bovino headed back to his post in California’s El Centro sector.
“Mr. Bovino is a wonderful man, and he’s a great professional. He is going to very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol throughout and across the country. Mr. Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis,” Leavitt told reporters in January.
CNN Reporter: “With Homan now going to Minnesota, is Gregory Bovino also going to remain in Minnesota overseeing these ICE operations?”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Mr. Bovino is a wonderful man, and he’s a great professional. He is going to very much continue… pic.twitter.com/9Sty0Qee9R
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) January 26, 2026
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