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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,622 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:34 PM Monday

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

Source: The Atlantic

Politics

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as "commander at large," and will return to El Centro.

By Nick Miroff
January 26, 2026, 6:36 PM ET

Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.

Bovino's sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino's command.

Earlier today, President Trump appeared to signal in a series of social-media posts a tactical shift in the administration's mass-deportation campaign. Trump wrote that he spoke with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz--whom the White House has blamed for inciting violence--and the two men are now on "a similar wavelength." Tom Homan, the former ICE chief whom Trump has designated "border czar," will head to Minnesota to assume command of the federal mobilization there, Trump said.

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Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/



Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/report-bovino-has-been-demoted-and-will-retire/

It's in GD too, posted earlier, I might add. I didn't see it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220972571
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Monday OP
Best news I've heard all day! nt Phoenix61 Monday #1
does he keep all his mussolini costumes? nt msongs Monday #2
Homan starts looking like Hitler? Irish_Dem Monday #42
Link IronLionZion Monday #3
subscription required to read article at link nt msongs Monday #4
I updated my post with the paywall free archive link IronLionZion Monday #5
Additional proof that s**t does run down hill. Starts with F45, then Noem, and now Bovine (not misspelled!). in2herbs Monday #6
Theatrics. twodogsbarking Monday #7
Is this supposed to pacify the public? live love laugh Monday #8
When ICE is gone, we'll be pacified. Not until then. Scrivener7 Monday #12
Oh when the Regime falls JustAnotherGen Monday #54
The Independent claims he's planning to retire soon IronLionZion Monday #9
He should have to work until at least 68, just like the GQP wants regular people to do. groundloop Monday #10
I'd rather put him in prison IronLionZion Monday #26
Or cleaning up road kill along our highways. llmart Monday #44
Most LEO's and firefighters can retire at 50 Fiendish Thingy Monday #17
He looks about 10 years older than that, minimum belpejic Monday #24
Hate makes you ugly Jilly_in_VA Tuesday #76
And they've been bitching about 65 year olds retiring lately! Just another example slightlv Monday #49
And get re-hired as a civilian consultant. progressoid Monday #50
DAMN............ Lovie777 Monday #11
Oh no! sheshe2 Monday #13
That half-a-bastard can go back to his job as a life model for Fisher-Price. LudwigPastorius Tuesday #68
Perfect. sheshe2 Tuesday #70
Move him, but allow bluestarone Monday #14
I was gonna say that Blue! popsdenver Monday #31
Do the taxpayers get a piece of his custom made junior size costumes? joanbarnes Monday #15
When will he be held accountable for terrorizing people while in leadership position and the deaths of 2 innocent people Deuxcents Monday #16
Do you mean by the courts? Fiendish Thingy Monday #19
I honestly suspect popsdenver Monday #34
So, he's going to be a private citizen soon, huh? Fiendish Thingy Monday #18
Thank you Minnesota for putting this fuck in his place Blue Owl Monday #20
Bye bye Bovo Clouds Passing Monday #21
He was only popsdenver Monday #35
So when Traildogbob Monday #22
Bye. littlemissmartypants Monday #23
No paywall (gift) link BumRushDaShow Monday #25
Schumer better not back down. They are trying to give him an excuse. mucifer Monday #27
Post removed Post removed Monday #36
Greg Bovino set to leave Minneapolis and could 'retire' in wake of Alex Pretti killing, report says question everything Monday #28
They took the lowest ranked person who they thought would satisfy the public Blumancru 22 hrs ago #78
Not good enough. Solly Mack Monday #29
How do you feel now, tough guy? Marie Marie Monday #30
One down....nt Figarosmom Monday #32
No, he is just changing his job description. BigmanPigman Monday #33
Even all the Republican CABAL popsdenver Monday #37
El Centro population is 87 percent Hispanic/Latino godsentme Monday #38
Can you imagine him trying to go out to eat in a restaurant? llmart Monday #45
That happens here in DC sometimes IronLionZion Monday #47
Work? He'll be phoning it in from an unknown location... hunter Monday #63
What about ICE Barbie? Sogo Monday #39
Name the killers. IcyPeas Monday #40
Homan is just as bad Deminpenn Monday #41
$50,000 Cash Bribe 2na fisherman Monday #62
Gee I hope people in EL Centro Shambala Monday #43
Right? Tsk, tsk, tsk.... electric_blue68 Monday #59
I did Nazi that coming angrychair Monday #46
he's a murderer samsingh Monday #48
I've not seen this mentioned, but it drives me nuts. slightlv Monday #51
Wow. That happened a lot faster than I thought it would! mwmisses4289 Monday #52
Next up Noem and Miller. OGBuzz Monday #53
Fuck that guy. orangecrush Monday #55
Is that the area Devin Nunez... I mean... Mooooonez is from rpannier Monday #56
Bovino getting put Out to Pasture. Cha Monday #57
May he enjoy hemlock and monkshood question everything Monday #60
Yeah, Graze away little Nazi Cha Monday #61
Someone had to take the fall for this... Dulcinea Monday #58
Keep going AncientOfDays Tuesday #64
Auf Nimmerwiedersehen, Herr Gruppenfuhrer RazorbackExpat Tuesday #65
Getting rid of the strutting dickhead at the top will not make these Proud-Boys-with-badges suddenly... LudwigPastorius Tuesday #66
But not his pension n/m Randomthought Tuesday #67
Fuhrer Trump's instructions to SS-Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Greg Bovino were quite clear. Aussie105 Tuesday #69
Yahoo! News reports Trump watched the coverage and thought it made him look bad Deminpenn Tuesday #71
And there ya go. The main reason the b- man is being let go. mwmisses4289 Tuesday #73
Susie Wiles has the perfect chance to Deminpenn Tuesday #77
Greg Bovino's replacement has already been chosen Ray Bruns Tuesday #72
Not falling for it. hamsterjill Tuesday #74
Republicans want a more gradual transition to full nazi regime Mysterian Tuesday #75

in2herbs

(4,321 posts)
6. Additional proof that s**t does run down hill. Starts with F45, then Noem, and now Bovine (not misspelled!).
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:41 PM
Monday

IronLionZion

(50,957 posts)
26. I'd rather put him in prison
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:05 PM
Monday

or put him on a chain gang picking up litter or something like that

Fiendish Thingy

(22,333 posts)
17. Most LEO's and firefighters can retire at 50
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:52 PM
Monday

I worked for the county as a therapist, and we could retire as early as 55.

belpejic

(787 posts)
24. He looks about 10 years older than that, minimum
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:59 PM
Monday

Setting aside the nature of Bovino as an evil Nazi rage sprite, all I otherwise have to say about his career trajectory is

slightlv

(7,520 posts)
49. And they've been bitching about 65 year olds retiring lately! Just another example
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 10:02 PM
Monday

of what's good for me is NOT good for you.

popsdenver

(1,781 posts)
31. I was gonna say that Blue!
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:30 PM
Monday

All the Border Patrol and ICE sadists will remain, in full force..........AND, will soon be backed up with the U.S. Military Soldiers.......

And the Republican CABAL will install someone just as bad, if not worse.........

Trump is just a tiny part of the problem, folks.......what is escaping everyone's attention, is that it is the Entire Group of Republicans (and all of those Uber Rich Republican Oligarchs), directing things from the shadows, as well as the Republican U.S. Senators, Republican U.S. House, and the U.S. Supreme Court Republican Justices as much as anyone/anything.........It is also the Republican owned/operated main stream media, Republican Governors, and The entire Republican CABAL, made up of advisors, appointees, and Cabinet members that are orally bathing Trump in lavish and nauseating praise to start every cabinet meeting..........

AND most of all, the U.S. Corporations that put all of these above people into office with outrageous campaign donations.
THE U.S. CORPORATIONS, Almost exclusively, bought and paid for the best Republican Politicians that money can buy.....

Deuxcents

(25,819 posts)
16. When will he be held accountable for terrorizing people while in leadership position and the deaths of 2 innocent people
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:52 PM
Monday

Fiendish Thingy

(22,333 posts)
19. Do you mean by the courts?
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:55 PM
Monday

Or by the streets?

Considering he will be a private citizen soon, we just might find out.

popsdenver

(1,781 posts)
34. I honestly suspect
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:33 PM
Monday

We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet......regretfully.......They are on a roll, and just getting warmed up. Note how the overall devastation by the Republicans is accelerating with every day that passes. I don't even want to guess what they are accomplishing in the shadows, behind their smoke and mirrors......

popsdenver

(1,781 posts)
35. He was only
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:35 PM
Monday

yet another scapegoat, who like so many before him, outgrew his usefulness, to the Republicans/Trump, only to be discarded........

Traildogbob

(12,682 posts)
22. So when
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:56 PM
Monday

Does Col Steven J Lockjaw get Locked in his new office and get gased, like he did protesters, except his gas is deadly, by the leaders of the Christmas Adventurers Club?
Asking for Bob Ferguson and his daughter.
Jungle pussy should be alerted too. Poor guy, just facing battle after battle with many more to come.
Punk ass bitch!

littlemissmartypants

(32,298 posts)
23. Bye.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 07:57 PM
Monday

The Venezuelan approach to government. Fire, disappear, retire, rehire... evermore subpar replacements, claim regime change, and one psychopath follows another. Wash hands and high five.... welcome to Venezuela.

Response to mucifer (Reply #27)

question everything

(51,790 posts)
28. Greg Bovino set to leave Minneapolis and could 'retire' in wake of Alex Pretti killing, report says
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:17 PM
Monday

Border Patrol “commander at large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and will return back to his old job in California, according to reports.

Bovino, who has been heavily involved in crackdowns on immigration across the country, will return to El Centro and is expected to retire soon, a DHS official and two other sources told The Atlantic.

However, in an online statement DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin denied the claims.

Bovino was set to leave Minneapolis as soon as Tuesday, CNN reported. However news of his role change had not been specified. Meanwhile CNN reports that the Bovino has also had his access to his social media accounts cut off, effective immediately

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/greg-bovino-removed-border-patrol-001021310.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Blumancru

(229 posts)
78. They took the lowest ranked person who they thought would satisfy the public
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 07:41 AM
22 hrs ago

And they threw him in the volcano. If that doesn’t turn attention elsewhere, someone higher will be jettisoned. The military does this when something goes wrong.

BigmanPigman

(54,743 posts)
33. No, he is just changing his job description.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:33 PM
Monday

Just like the pardoned Jan 6 rioters, be will continue to destroy the USA since that is his and tRump's and Miller's agenda. He will be "made over" in a different yet evil roll in some capacity.

popsdenver

(1,781 posts)
37. Even all the Republican CABAL
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:40 PM
Monday

are saying Trump this, and Trump that, framing him as THE monster, rather than the Republicans, for all that they are doing.

That way, when Trump is out of there, they ALL can walk away with everyone believing it was ALL TRUMP....

godsentme

(219 posts)
38. El Centro population is 87 percent Hispanic/Latino
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 08:41 PM
Monday

Ironic for him to return home to a population that is largely people he hates.

llmart

(17,402 posts)
45. Can you imagine him trying to go out to eat in a restaurant?
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:30 PM
Monday

He'll always have to wonder what the people in the back have done to his food.

IronLionZion

(50,957 posts)
47. That happens here in DC sometimes
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:40 PM
Monday

Stephen Miller threw away like $100 worth of restaurant food he already paid for because the restaurant workers heckled him and he didn't trust them.

hunter

(40,419 posts)
63. Work? He'll be phoning it in from an unknown location...
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 11:56 PM
Monday

... if they expect him to work at all.

2na fisherman

(261 posts)
62. $50,000 Cash Bribe
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 11:52 PM
Monday

Maybe Homan will now secretly demand that the Minnesota Governor provide him with a cash bribe to make CPB leave the sate. Following this supposedly good news of Bovino's replacement with Homan, it would be great if Walz made a public statement that he will not be making any cash deals with Homan for CPB to leave his state.

Shambala

(263 posts)
43. Gee I hope people in EL Centro
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:22 PM
Monday

don't welcome him back by trolling him and mocking him and making him feel humiliated every day. That would be awful.

slightlv

(7,520 posts)
51. I've not seen this mentioned, but it drives me nuts.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 10:09 PM
Monday

Taco backs down after having the whole world throw their shit in his face about the latest evil he's done, and when it gets to be "too much" he backs down. Except he doesn't. He explains he's going to pull these guys or those guys out because the democratic governor of the democratic city he's been terrorizing suddenly sees things his way, and since they're now "sympatico" he'll ease up a little bit.

Bullshit! Walz did not cave in to trump,no matter how many times trump wants to yell it to the public. WE know he backed down because he got backed into a corner by himself and his goons, and just couldn't take the heat any longer. But I really am tired of him blaming all evil on the democrats, and when the evil he does gets to be too much and he has to backtrack, suddenly that particular democrat is AOK in his book. Tell me another story, Mr. Dementia.

rpannier

(24,863 posts)
56. Is that the area Devin Nunez... I mean... Mooooonez is from
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 10:29 PM
Monday

Bovine and Moo-nez sent out to pasture

Dulcinea

(9,798 posts)
58. Someone had to take the fall for this...
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 11:12 PM
Monday

...and Dwarf Nazi was the one. Apparently he's the most expendable.

AncientOfDays

(257 posts)
64. Keep going
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 12:07 AM
Tuesday

Throwing Bovino under the bus is just a sop - Minneapolis needs to keep going === AND they need our help

LudwigPastorius

(14,330 posts)
66. Getting rid of the strutting dickhead at the top will not make these Proud-Boys-with-badges suddenly...
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 12:57 AM
Tuesday

any more competent or any less bloodthirsty.

Aussie105

(7,698 posts)
69. Fuhrer Trump's instructions to SS-Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Greg Bovino were quite clear.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 01:43 AM
Tuesday

'Kick some asses, bust a few heads, but no corpses, ok?
Well, not in front of cameras anyway, those cell phones are everywhere!'

Guess the message wasn't passed down sufficiently strongly enough.

So Greg, ya gotta go!

Let down by his untrained, anti-American hotheads!
Who could have seen that coming?

Deminpenn

(17,327 posts)
71. Yahoo! News reports Trump watched the coverage and thought it made him look bad
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 04:35 AM
Tuesday

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/is-alex-prettis-shooting-death-in-minneapolis-a-turning-point-in-trumps-ice-crackdown-a-comprehensive-guide-to-what-happened--and-whats-next-211521753.html

Citing three sources “familiar with the discussion,” CNN reported on Monday afternoon that “top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow and return to their respective sectors” after “Trump spent several hours on Sunday and Monday watching the coverage [of Pretti’s killing] and was personally unhappy by how his administration was coming across.”


The price for making Trump look bad is being kicked to the curb. It won't surprise me if this works up the chain to Noem and Miller as soon as he figures out (or Susie Wiles tells him) that Miller is behind it all. We all know Trump has no loyalty to anyone but himself.

mwmisses4289

(3,456 posts)
73. And there ya go. The main reason the b- man is being let go.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 08:07 AM
Tuesday

(in a whiny, toddler voice) it makes me look bad.

Got news for you dude- you already look bad, you have never looked good in anything you do.

Deminpenn

(17,327 posts)
77. Susie Wiles has the perfect chance to
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 03:43 PM
Tuesday

oust Miller, Noem, Homan, Patel and cut Vance off at the knees all while consolidating her own power as the Trump whisperer. All she needs to do is tell Trump, who will immediately believe, they are the cabal who are making him look bad. He'd fire them all in the time it takes to say their names. He can't fire Vance, but he can make him into a potted plant.

It's what a true bureaucratic infighter would do.


hamsterjill

(17,137 posts)
74. Not falling for it.
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 08:40 AM
Tuesday

This is to placate the Democrats in the hopes of getting more to agree to fund ICE.

I believe it IS a small step in the right direction, but let’s not get carried away. Trump always has an ulterior motive.

Mysterian

(6,226 posts)
75. Republicans want a more gradual transition to full nazi regime
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 10:12 AM
Tuesday

Bovino and his Himmler shtick was abit overboard for this stage of their game.

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