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Why did the Trump administration sideline one of its loudest immigration messengers?

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

Gregory Bovino’s removal from social media may signal a shift in how the administration wants to broadcast its immigration crackdown

What’s going on with Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who had been leading President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota?

Following the second shooting death of a Minneapolis citizen by federal immigration officers, Bovino was taken out of Minnesota and reassigned to his old Customs and Border Protection position as chief patrol agent in El Centro, California.

The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff reported earlier this week that Bovino is essentially losing his job as he is expected to retire soon. That remains to be seen, but this much is true: He has effectively been erased from a leadership role in Trump’s immigration crackdown.

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