As The Times noted, Bovino wasn’t particularly concerned that he had overstepped with his tactics. Advertisement“We wanted total border domination,” Bovino said. We’re going to dominate the hell out of that damn place.”Gregory Bovino, the self-styled former “commander-at-large” of the U.S. Border Patrol, during a news conference in January. Without naming names, Bovino criticized his superiors as “status quo” bureaucrats who had rejected his “turn and burn” tactics of quickfire immigration arrests. The former Border Patrol boss is retiring this week in the wake of massive blowback about his brutal enforcement tactics in places like Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2026 16:32 UTC