Greg Bovino Loses His Job

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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/

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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]

1. Best news I've heard all day! nt

[msongs]

2. does he keep all his mussolini costumes? nt

[Irish_Dem]

42. Homan starts looking like Hitler?

[IronLionZion]

3. Link

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

Archive link for paywalled DUers https://archive.ph/kvBDb

[msongs]

4. subscription required to read article at link nt

[IronLionZion]

5. I updated my post with the paywall free archive link

[in2herbs]

6. Additional proof that s**t does run down hill. Starts with F45, then Noem, and now Bovine (not misspelled!).

[twodogsbarking]

7. Theatrics.

[live love laugh]

8. Is this supposed to pacify the public?

[Scrivener7]

12. When ICE is gone, we'll be pacified. Not until then.

[JustAnotherGen]

54. Oh when the Regime falls

He'll pay.

[IronLionZion]

9. The Independent claims he's planning to retire soon

since 55 is so old

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/greg-bovino-demotion-border-patrol-ice-minnesota-b2908145.html

[groundloop]

10. He should have to work until at least 68, just like the GQP wants regular people to do.

[IronLionZion]

26. I'd rather put him in prison

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

[llmart]

44. Or cleaning up road kill along our highways.

[Fiendish Thingy]

17. Most LEO's and firefighters can retire at 50

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

[belpejic]

24. He looks about 10 years older than that, minimum

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]

76. Hate makes you ugly

Look at Stephen Miller. He's what, 40? Looks 65 if a day.

[slightlv]

49. And they've been bitching about 65 year olds retiring lately! Just another example

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

[progressoid]

50. And get re-hired as a civilian consultant.

[Lovie777]

11. DAMN............

back here in Cali, UGH.

[sheshe2]

13. Oh no!

What is the little guy going to do now.

[LudwigPastorius]

68. That half-a-bastard can go back to his job as a life model for Fisher-Price.

[sheshe2]

70. Perfect.

Lifeless and souless.

[bluestarone]

14. Move him, but allow

MURDERERS on the streets!! GREAT fucking deal.

[popsdenver]

31. I was gonna say that Blue!

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]

15. Do the taxpayers get a piece of his custom made junior size costumes?

[Deuxcents]

16. When will he be held accountable for terrorizing people while in leadership position and the deaths of 2 innocent people

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. Do you mean by the courts?

Or by the streets?

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

[popsdenver]

34. I honestly suspect

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]

18. So, he's going to be a private citizen soon, huh?

Interesting…

[Blue Owl]

20. Thank you Minnesota for putting this fuck in his place

Now who's next?

[Clouds Passing]

21. Bye bye Bovo

[popsdenver]

35. He was only

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

[Traildogbob]

22. So when

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]

23. Bye.

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]

25. No paywall (gift) link

Greg Bovino Loses His Job

[mucifer]

27. Schumer better not back down. They are trying to give him an excuse.

[question everything]

28. Greg Bovino set to leave Minneapolis and could 'retire' in wake of Alex Pretti killing, report says

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]

78. They took the lowest ranked person who they thought would satisfy the public

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.

[Solly Mack]

29. Not good enough.

[Marie Marie]

30. How do you feel now, tough guy?

[Figarosmom]

32. One down....nt

[BigmanPigman]

33. No, he is just changing his job description.

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]

37. Even all the Republican CABAL

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]

38. El Centro population is 87 percent Hispanic/Latino

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

[llmart]

45. Can you imagine him trying to go out to eat in a restaurant?

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

[IronLionZion]

47. That happens here in DC sometimes

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]

63. Work? He'll be phoning it in from an unknown location...

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

[Sogo]

39. What about ICE Barbie?

She needs to go, too!!

[IcyPeas]

40. Name the killers.

[Deminpenn]

41. Homan is just as bad

but now he's a step closer to Bovino's fate.

[2na fisherman]

62. $50,000 Cash Bribe

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]

43. Gee I hope people in EL Centro

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

[electric_blue68]

59. Right? Tsk, tsk, tsk....

[angrychair]

46. I did Nazi that coming

May he live a long and miserable life and never know a moment of peace.

[samsingh]

48. he's a murderer

[slightlv]

51. I've not seen this mentioned, but it drives me nuts.

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]

52. Wow. That happened a lot faster than I thought it would!

Will Noem be next?

[OGBuzz]

53. Next up Noem and Miller.

And absolutely no secret service protection.

[orangecrush]

55. Fuck that guy.

[rpannier]

56. Is that the area Devin Nunez... I mean... Mooooonez is from

Bovine and Moo-nez sent out to pasture

[Cha]

57. Bovino getting put Out to Pasture.

Scapegoat for Nazi at the top.

[question everything]

60. May he enjoy hemlock and monkshood

[Cha]

61. Yeah, Graze away little Nazi

in the coat.

[Dulcinea]

58. Someone had to take the fall for this...

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

[AncientOfDays]

64. Keep going

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

[RazorbackExpat]

65. Auf Nimmerwiedersehen, Herr Gruppenfuhrer

It wasn't nice knowing you

[LudwigPastorius]

66. Getting rid of the strutting dickhead at the top will not make these Proud-Boys-with-badges suddenly...

any more competent or any less bloodthirsty.

[Randomthought]

67. But not his pension n/m

[Aussie105]

69. Fuhrer Trump's instructions to SS-Oberst-Gruppenfuhrer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Greg Bovino were quite clear.

'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]

71. Yahoo! News reports Trump watched the coverage and thought it made him look bad

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]

73. And there ya go. The main reason the b- man is being let go.

(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]

77. Susie Wiles has the perfect chance to

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]

72. Greg Bovino's replacement has already been chosen

[hamsterjill]

74. Not falling for it.

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]

75. Republicans want a more gradual transition to full nazi regime

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