Border Patrol Chief Retiring After Being Sidelined In Minneapolis

A senior Border Patrol official is retiring weeks after leading a high-profile operation in Minneapolis that made headlines across the country.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Gregory Bovino is retiring at the end of March after serving roughly three decades in the agency, he first revealed to Breitbart in an interview. His decision marks the latest fallout from Operation Metro Surge, a joint Border Patrol and 🛂Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minneapolis that began in January and ended after two anti-ICE agitators died while allegedly obstructing enforcement missions.

The Trump administration ultimately ended Bovino’s role in the Minneapolis operation, with him returning to California to serve as a sector chief.

“The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced,” Bovino told Breitbart.

“Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling,” he continued.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.

Bovino had become a rising start during the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration. The senior CBP official led enforcement operations in Los Angeles, Chicago and other major metropolitan areas, serving as an