Customs and Border Safety commander-at-large Greg Bovino is returning to El Centro, California, to renew his duties as chief of that sector, a number of sources advised ABC Information.
The place of commander-at-large was a short lived place.
Dept. of Homeland Safety assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated in an announcement on Monday that Bovino “has NOT been relieved of his duties,” referring to him as a “key a part of the President’s crew and an excellent American.”
Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino appears on at a fuel station, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good on January 7 throughout an immigration raid, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 21, 2026.
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It comes as Bovino and a few Border Patrol brokers are leaving Minneapolis, simply as Border Czar Tom Homan arrives within the metropolis.
President Donald Trump on Monday introduced he’s dispatching Homan — bypassing the traditional chain of command — the place Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem and Bovino have been overseeing ICE operations.
“He has not been concerned in that space, however is aware of and likes most of the individuals there. Tom is hard however truthful, and can report on to me,” Trump wrote in a social media publish.
Noem and Chief Advisor Corey Lewandowski met with Trump for nearly two hours on Monday, based on the New York Instances.
It was at her request, based on the Instances, and her job reportedly is not in jeopardy.
Tensions over the administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement escalated over the weekend after the federal agent-involved lethal taking pictures of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.
A number of movies of the confrontation Saturday confirmed federal brokers spraying Pretti with pepper spray and pinning him to the bottom earlier than the taking pictures.
The Division of Homeland Safety alleged that Pretti approached Border Patrol brokers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, and “violently resisted” when brokers tried to disarm him. Native officers have disputed that characterization.
It marked the second deadly, federal agent-involved taking pictures in Minneapolis this month.
Noem, Bovino and FBI Director Kash Patel have defended the brokers’ actions. Noem stated Pretti had been “brandishing” a gun and possessed a number of magazines with the intent to inflict hurt on officers — a “bloodbath,” Bovino claimed. Patel went as far as to counsel carrying a gun to a protest is against the law.
State and native officers stated Pretti was lawfully carrying a gun, with a hid carry allow, and video reviewed and verified by ABC Information doesn’t seem to indicate that Pretti drew his gun on the brokers and as an alternative was holding up a cellular phone, not a gun, to document brokers in the course of the incident.
