PERSON: Greg Bovino

U.S. Border Patrol

Commander-Operation At Large

Gregory Bovino (born 1969 or 1970) is an American law enforcement officer who has served as a senior official in the United States Border Patrol since 2019.

Bovino graduated from Western Carolina University in 1993 and later attended Appalachian State University for graduate school. In 1996, he joined the United States Border Patrol and was assigned to El Paso, Texas. By 2008, Bovino had become an assistant chief at the Border Patrol’s sector in Yuma, Arizona. That month, he was promoted as the patrol agent in charge of the station in Blythe, California. Bovino later became the chief of the sectors in New Orleans and El Centro, California.

In the second presidency of Donald Trump, Bovino became involved in the administration’s immigration policy. In June 2025, he was named as the tactical commander of a mass raid operation in Los Angeles that led to protests across the city. After the operation concluded, he shifted to Chicago to serve as the commander of Operation Midway Blitz. In the Los Angeles and Chicago operations, Bovino assumed a public-facing role. By October, he was referred to as a “commander-at-large” of the Border Patrol.

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