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Bovino was removed from the role of commander and returned to his position as CBP sector chief in El Centro, California, after leading aggressive immigration enforcement operations.

Gregory Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol head who became the face of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, will retire at the end of the month, two Customs and Border Protection officials told NBC News.

Bovino was removed from his role as CBP commander at large in January and returned to his role as Border Patrol sector chief in El Centro, California. The move came after the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles.

His exit coincides with the date Donald Trump announced would be Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s last day in the job. In Bovino's position as commander, he reported directly to Noem and her senior adviser Corey Lewandowski.

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 hours ago

He better keep looking over his shoulder. Never know when it’s going to happen.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 1 points 31 minutes ago

Right after he won best supporting actor as well.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How much you wanna bet that if this whole thing unravels and Republicans can't steal elections as they hope in time that many of these pieces of shit will flee to Moscow and Tel Aviv?

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 1 points 21 minutes ago

They should absolutely be brought to justice, but I’ll accept a country free of them.

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He was patrolling the southern border in Minneapolis. They should send him on one last deployment. And send him to patrol the southern border in Antarctica. Then forget to bring him home.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This gets in my craw as he is just barely older than me and going to have a nice retirement while im whittling away savings and wonder if I will lose my home. Don't go to college kids its a dead end.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

No, the problem is that you don't try to fuck over your fellow Americans hard enough.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Time for whichever official has the jurisdiction to dishonorably discharge him and forfeit his retirement - you know, like Trump did with McCabe and tried to do with Kelly?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 10 points 2 hours ago

If he was smart he would get ahead of the game and find a nice place in Argentina

[–] RaoulDuke85@piefed.social 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Trebuchet@europe.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

My thoughts exactly

[–] 0ndead 5 points 2 hours ago

Won’t matter. Traitors get the lamppost.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I hope the right people find him.

[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, I missed him being removed in January.

The wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

The way I understand it his parents have a place in Blowing Rock, NC.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 3 points 2 hours ago

He's only retiring because he's hit mandatory retirement age.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Retire to the surface of the sun?

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago

Good, get lost you shrimpy insecure cunt. Let's see what pile of trash they replace him with.