Bovino was demoted in January as head of controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis
Gregory Bovino of the US border patrol, who was demoted in late January as the public face of the controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, says he is retiring at the end of March.
Bovino announced his retirement in an interview with Breitbart on Monday, weeks after federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good to death in separate cases in January.
Bovino said: “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 joined the border patrol in 1996 and spent most of his career in California’s El Centro sector before being tapped by the Trump administration to lead its sweeping Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota.
