#gregory-bovino

#gregory-bovino

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.

The death of Pretti, a seemingly saintly ICU nurse that the administration tried and completely failed to dig up opposition research to demonize, has clearly shaken Trump, spooked by the prospects of crushingly negative polling in the build-up to the 2026 midterm elections. Immigration, which had long been his strongest overall issue in polling, is where he's now losing ground most rapidly.

Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed Swamp Sweep that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and three people familiar with the operation. The deployment, which is expected to begin in earnest on Dec. 1, marks the latest escalation in a series of rapid-fire immigration crackdowns unfolding nationwide