The rise and fall of Gregory Bovino, US border patrol’s menacing provoker-in-chief
Official who said Alex Pretti wanted to ‘massacre’ agents relegated to bench as White House appears to change tackWho is Greg Bovino, the official spearheading Trump’s immigration crackdown?Critics have called him a would-be Napoleon and mocked his “Nazi” aesthetic, but with Donald...
<p>Official who said Alex Pretti wanted to ‘massacre’ agents relegated to bench as White House appears to change tack</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/greg-bovino-trump-immigration">Who is Greg Bovino, the official spearheading Trump’s immigration crackdown?</a></p></li></ul><p>Critics have called him a would-be Napoleon and mocked his “Nazi” aesthetic, but with Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant surge into Minneapolis, Gregory Bovino seemed to have found the political moment he had long been seeking.</p><p>Bovino, 55, a senior US border patrol official, initially rose to prominence as the figurehead of immigration <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/08/immigration-officers-los-angeles-california">crackdowns</a> in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</a>, Chicago and other cities.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/gregory-bovino-analysis-minneapolis-alex-pretti">Continue reading...</a>
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