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
Phoenix61
(18,741 posts)msongs
(73,171 posts)Irish_Dem
(80,296 posts)IronLionZion
(50,960 posts)Archive link for paywalled DUers https://archive.ph/kvBDb
msongs
(73,171 posts)IronLionZion
(50,960 posts)in2herbs
(4,321 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,774 posts)live love laugh
(16,238 posts)Scrivener7
(58,737 posts)JustAnotherGen
(37,749 posts)He'll pay.
IronLionZion
(50,960 posts)groundloop
(13,614 posts)IronLionZion
(50,960 posts)or put him on a chain gang picking up litter or something like that
llmart
(17,404 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(22,348 posts)I worked for the county as a therapist, and we could retire as early as 55.
belpejic
(787 posts)Setting aside the nature of Bovino as an evil Nazi rage sprite, all I otherwise have to say about his career trajectory is
Jilly_in_VA
(13,970 posts)Look at Stephen Miller. He's what, 40? Looks 65 if a day.
slightlv
(7,520 posts)of what's good for me is NOT good for you.
progressoid
(52,715 posts)Lovie777
(22,133 posts)back here in Cali, UGH.
sheshe2
(96,408 posts)What is the little guy going to do now.
LudwigPastorius
(14,331 posts)
sheshe2
(96,408 posts)Lifeless and souless.
bluestarone
(21,531 posts)MURDERERS on the streets!! GREAT fucking deal.
popsdenver
(1,789 posts)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.....
joanbarnes
(2,092 posts)Deuxcents
(25,825 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(22,348 posts)Or by the streets?
Considering he will be a private citizen soon, we just might find out.
popsdenver
(1,789 posts)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......
Fiendish Thingy
(22,348 posts)Interesting
Blue Owl
(58,444 posts)Now who's next?
Clouds Passing
(7,316 posts)popsdenver
(1,789 posts)yet another scapegoat, who like so many before him, outgrew his usefulness, to the Republicans/Trump, only to be discarded........
Traildogbob
(12,689 posts)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
(32,328 posts)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.
BumRushDaShow
(166,712 posts)mucifer
(25,581 posts)Response to mucifer (Reply #27)
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question everything
(51,795 posts)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)And they threw him in the volcano. If that doesnt turn attention elsewhere, someone higher will be jettisoned. The military does this when something goes wrong.
Solly Mack
(96,575 posts)Marie Marie
(11,002 posts)Figarosmom
(10,152 posts)BigmanPigman
(54,745 posts)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
(1,789 posts)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)Ironic for him to return home to a population that is largely people he hates.
llmart
(17,404 posts)He'll always have to wonder what the people in the back have done to his food.
IronLionZion
(50,960 posts)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
(40,420 posts)... if they expect him to work at all.
Sogo
(7,020 posts)She needs to go, too!!
IcyPeas
(25,041 posts)Deminpenn
(17,332 posts)but now he's a step closer to Bovino's fate.
2na fisherman
(263 posts)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)don't welcome him back by trolling him and mocking him and making him feel humiliated every day. That would be awful.
electric_blue68
(26,308 posts)angrychair
(11,822 posts)May he live a long and miserable life and never know a moment of peace.
samsingh
(18,310 posts)slightlv
(7,520 posts)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.
mwmisses4289
(3,465 posts)Will Noem be next?
OGBuzz
(58 posts)And absolutely no secret service protection.
orangecrush
(29,062 posts)rpannier
(24,866 posts)Bovine and Moo-nez sent out to pasture
Cha
(317,495 posts)Scapegoat for Nazi at the top.
question everything
(51,795 posts)Cha
(317,495 posts)in the coat.
Dulcinea
(9,805 posts)...and Dwarf Nazi was the one. Apparently he's the most expendable.
AncientOfDays
(257 posts)Throwing Bovino under the bus is just a sop - Minneapolis needs to keep going === AND they need our help
RazorbackExpat
(915 posts)It wasn't nice knowing you
LudwigPastorius
(14,331 posts)any more competent or any less bloodthirsty.
Randomthought
(1,011 posts)Aussie105
(7,698 posts)'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
(17,332 posts)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
(3,465 posts)(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
(17,332 posts)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.
Ray Bruns
(6,061 posts)
hamsterjill
(17,138 posts)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 lets not get carried away. Trump always has an ulterior motive.
Mysterian
(6,227 posts)Bovino and his Himmler shtick was abit overboard for this stage of their game.