The outspoken border official drove the agency’s aggressive immigration policy in U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, until January.

The outspoken border official drove the agency’s aggressive immigration policy in U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, until January.

Gregory Bovino, the combative border official empowered by the Trump administration to run major immigration operations across the United States, plans to retire in the coming weeks.

Bovino, 55, who had close ties to exiting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, will officially leave his post at the end of March.

U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, the face of President Trump’s mass deportation surge, will retire after fatal shootings and controversy in Minneapolis.

Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent and CBP Operations Commander Gregory Bovino is set to retire at the end of March, bringing an end to a nearly 30-year career with the agency. Bovino is best known for leading U.S. Customs and Border Protection teams in the most sweeping mass-immigration enforcement operations in the agency's history, according to DHS. | Border / Cartel Chronicles