MINNEAPOLIS — Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino held Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom “responsible” for violence against immigration agents on Thursday after he compared Bovino to a Nazi.
Newsom said Bovino looks like “he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb” during a Wednesday interview at Davos, Switzerland’s World Economic Forum, mocking his Border Patrol uniform. He described Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations as “secret police, private army, masked men, people disappearing quite literally, no due process.”
“Governor Newsom’s had a long record of lying, and again, those are … lies,” Bivono told the Daily Caller News Foundation at a Thursday press conference when addressing the comments. “I don’t shop on eBay. This ‘garb,’ as he quite uneloquently puts it, is a standard Border Patrol issue, has been since May the 28th, 1924.” (RELATED: Journalists Lose Their Minds When Border Agent Tells Minnesotans To Stop Clogging 911 System)
‘He’s responsible for that very violence that our agents are subject to’ @CMDROpAtLargeCA responds to California Governor Gavin Newsom who took shots at Bovino when he took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/OkdJaVreQK
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) January 22, 2026
Boviono highlighted rising violence against immigration officials around the country, including in Newsom’s California. He also blamed rhetoric from Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who have called ICE President Donald Trump’s “Gestapo” and told agents to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis,” respectively.
“He’s enjoying Davos and whatever he’s enjoying over there,” Bovino said about Newsom.
“Our agents are being assaulted and stalked by violent rioters, many of which, I believe … draw inspiration from his words when we operate in California because he says the same thing, some of the same things that Frey and Walz said,” Bovino told reporters. “So, he is responsible for that very violence that our agents are subject to on a daily basis.”
Jorge Ventura contributed reporting.
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