Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Gregory Bovino is set to retire at the end of March, according to reports.
In an interview with Breitbart, Bovino said, “The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced.” He added, “Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling.”
Bovino was removed from his role in Minneapolis in January following the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
After a separate clash in Minneapolis, Bovino said during a press conference that officials “omitted the fact that the suspect had a gun and magazines full of ammunition. In what looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”
Following immigration enforcement’s legal win, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit threw out the preliminary injunction issued by Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, Bovino praised federal agents as “the most highly trained, experienced agency ready to take on expeditionary type missions in the toughest of environments,” and said in a separate post that operations are “conducted with much foresight with the most experienced, proven, and battle hardened agents the Border Patrol has to offer to ensure we WIN every time.”
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) said in a statement that Bovino “won’t just get to walk away — he will be held accountable and responsible for the damage he’s done to our nation. We won’t forget, and neither should you. No one is above the law.”
