Fmr. U.S. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino Tells His Side of the I.C.E. Story
Bovino has zero regrets about the aggressive operations and says he wishes they had gone even harder. They discuss the promise of mass deportations, what really happened in Minneapolis, the PA State Trooper killed by a Haitian illegal, the media’s spin on Renee Good & Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem’s leadership vs. the current DHS direction, and why deterrence matters.
Immigration has become one of the most important issues of the decade for American voters, and it's easy to see why.
Thanks to Joe Biden's lax deportation and border policies, President Donald Trump inherited a mess that his supporters have called upon him to clean up.
His methods have drawn scrutiny, namely from the left, but former Border Patrol chief, Greg Bovino, joined "Tomi Lahren is Fearless" and expressed his thoughts on the deportation operation as a whole, revealing that there is still plenty left to get done.
"I've got no regrets about anything," Bovino said. "Except, that I wish I had gone even harder."
The former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large says he "still has gas in the tank" when it comes to enforcing immigration policies and also suggested that Trump may have been swayed to relax his stance on immigration from polling numbers.
USPB Cmdr. Gregory K. Bovino walks out of a gas station in Minnesota. Bovino announced his retirement over the weekend, following his tenure in which he led the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
"If I had something to do over, I would have briefed Trump face-to-face and cut out that team... that maybe plied him with polling and things like that."
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It's a fascinating peek behind the curtain and helps to explain why maybe there seemed to be a shift away from the more aggressive ICE operations from earlier in the year.
Bovino expressed his wishes to continue the mandate of the people who voted for the administration to adopt a hardline stance on immigration enforcement.
"I would have loved to have arrested, oh, I don't know, 99 million of those 100 million illegal aliens that are still here," Bovino said.
This split shows President-elect Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ((Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images and Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))
While Bovino is a very unpopular figure to those on the left, having endured harassment from a number of unhinged liberals in public, the former Border Patrol chief reveals the vast majority of his interactions have been positive.
"90% are people saying, 'Can I get a picture with you? Thank you. We're sorry what happened to you,'" Bovino explained. "That lets me know that what we were doing was accepted by, as we always said, 90% of the public."
His unapologetic stance certainly rubs people the wrong way, but Bovino explains that enforcing the law is something no one should be sorry for.
"I'm very unapologetic," he told Lahren. "I won't apologize for a legal, ethical, lawful, and much needed law enforcement mission."
An agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waits in a hallway outside of a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court inside the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building in New York on July 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump has made deporting undocumented immigrants a key priority for his second term, after successfully campaigning against an alleged "invasion" by criminals. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
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That mission still has a long way to go, but as Bovino sees it, the next generation is ready to complete it.
"It's going to be the young folks, the grassroots, look out... they're going to win this thing."
