Arellano: Goodbye, Border Patrol bogeyman Gregory Bovino, and good riddance

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Arellano: Goodbye, Border Patrol bogeyman Gregory Bovino, and good riddance

 

By Gustavo Arellano

 

Los Angeles Times - Fri, March 27, 2026

 

How would you feel about getting a dream gig only to see it end in disgrace because of, well, you?

 

That’s what Gregory Bovino gets to think about for the rest of his life. Friday is the Border Patrol lifer’s last day on the job after 30 years — and he ain’t leaving because he wants to.

 

For the last year, the self-described "hillbilly" was the personification of the Trump administration’s xenophobic deportation deluge. Helicopter invasions of apartment complexes, tear gas canisters thrown into large crowds, defying court orders, glamorous photo shoots: There was no municipality too big, no tactic too crazy, no quote too incendiary for Bovino to take on while he treated immigrant neighborhoods like the shores of Normandy.

 

The North Carolina native’s caravan of cruelty quickly earned him a promotion from El Centro sector chief to Border Patrol commander at large, a new position crafted just for him. He embraced the role of migra bogeyman like a tween boy scarfing down a bowl of Warheads, always promising more deportations, more chaos, more more.

 

Not anymore.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/arellano-goodbye-border-patrol-bogeyman-100000130.html