Greg Bovino, face of Trump’s mass deportation campaign, to retire after controversial Minneapolis raids

Greg Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commandant who became the look of the Trump administration's wide deportation run earlier helium was reassigned from his enactment relation amid arguable migration raids passim the country, volition retire. 

Bovino was removed from his relation arsenic U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) commandant astatine ample successful January amid the deaths of 2 U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, successful Minneapolis during migration enforcement operations. 

He announced his status successful an interrogation with Breitbart. 

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U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory K. Bovino walks retired of a state presumption successful Minnesota. Bovino announced his status implicit the weekend, pursuing his tenure successful which helium led the Trump administration's wide deportation campaign.   (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

"The top grant of my full beingness was to enactment alongside Border Patrol agents connected the borderline and successful the interior of the United States successful immoderate of the astir challenging conditions the bureau has ever faced," Bovino told the outlet. "Watching these agents retired determination giving it their each successful immoderate of the astir unsafe of environments we person ever faced was humbling."

He returned to his relation arsenic Border Patrol assemblage main successful El Centro, California.

Bovino and his squad were dispatched to Los Angeles successful June 2025, wherever they arrested transgression amerciable immigrants, sparking section outcry, including from Mayor Karen Bass, who confronted Bovino. 

The events determination were followed by operations successful respective different cities earlier deploying to Minneapolis. 

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People outcry astatine U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and different agents portion they halt astatine a state station. Bovino volition beryllium leaving Minnesota amid contentious migration enforcement operations, sources told Fox News.  (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Over time, Bovino and national migration authorities came nether dense scrutiny from Democrats, who denounced them arsenic being indiscriminate and aggressive. They were accused of targeting immigrants with nary transgression records and adjacent U.S. citizens. 

In Minneapolis, agents were followed by civilians who were seen impeding instrumentality enforcement operations. 

Good was changeable and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cause arsenic she drove guardant successful his direction, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. 

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and his men halt astatine a state presumption portion connected patrol connected December 17, 2025 successful Evanston, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Pretti was fatally changeable aft helium approached migration agents with a 9 mm handgun and resisted erstwhile they tried to disarm him, authorities said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the DHS and the USBP.