Border Patrol’s Greg Bovino expected to retire from El Centro post, CBS News reports

Controversial Border Patrol official Greg Bovino is expected to retire from federal service at the end of the month after being relieved of his national leadership role in January and returning to his former post in El Centro, neighboring San Diego County, sources told CBS News Monday.

Bovino had been serving as “commander at large,” overseeing immigration enforcement operations in major U.S. cities and became a leading public face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Teams under his command were deployed to Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and Minneapolis to conduct sweeping enforcement operations that drew criticism from local officials, civil rights advocates and congressional Democrats.

Scrutiny of Bovino intensified after federal immigration agents killed U.S. citizens in Minneapolis during protests tied to the operation. Bovino then publicly defended the actions of agents involved in the Jan. 24 shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti, even as video and local officials disputed aspects of the federal account.