Greg Bovino Was Trump's Rising Star. Then He Arrived in Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS—For six months, Gregory Bovino was the tip of the Trump administration’s deportation spear, a spiky-haired Border Patrol agent from the John Wayne school of law-and-order who commanded the rolling immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other Democratic-run cities that netted thousands of arrests. They also prompted public backlash and complaints from terrified immigrant communities.
On Monday, nearly a month into Bovino’s Minneapolis campaign, he was pulled from the field less than 48 hours after referring to border agents who killed a 37-year-old nurse as “victims.”. “Operation Metro Surge” was supposed to be Bovino’s most ambitious mission yet, a new kind of urban takeover by federal law enforcement. Instead, it descended into scenes of tear gas, pepper spray and civil unrest on the streets of a proudly progressive Midwestern city.
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Bovino’s removal marks the sidelining—at least for now—of a longtime Border Patrol agent who rose from relative obscurity to swashbuckling MAGA star. He did so by displaying the same knack as his ultimate boss for social-media theatrics and personal mythmaking.
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Then there’s the coat. In frigid Minneapolis, Bovino was seen wearing a long olive overcoat with an oversize collar that looked to some a bit too much like it came from Hermann Göring’s closet. “It’s as if he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Bovino later said he’d owned the coat for 25 years, and that it had been issued by the Border Patrol.
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