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U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino stands with Federal agents outside a convenience store, Jan. 21, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

Gregory Bovino, Border Patrol commander who led Trump’s enforcement surge, to retire

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino shouts at protesters, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck, File)

In his words: How Gregory Bovino became a face of Trump’s mass deportations and ended his career

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino walks through a Target store Jan. 11, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Adam Gray, File)

Greg Bovino to leave Minneapolis as Trump reshuffles leadership of immigration crackdown

By Steve Karnowski and Mike Balsamo - Associated Press

People participate in a protest and noise demonstration calling for an end to federal immigration enforcement operations in the city, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Latest shooting in Minnesota enforcement surge fuels more calls for immigration agents to leave

By Sarah Raza and Jack Brook and Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Michael Pretti shows Alex J. Pretti, the man who was shot by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Michael Pretti via AP)

Top Border Patrol official says Alex Pretti to blame for being fatally shot by ICE agents

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Armed community response members patrol near the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer earlier in the day, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Videos of deadly Minneapolis shooting contradict government statements

By Hannah Fingerhut - Associated Press

A damaged car is seen as law enforcement officials work the scene following reports that federal immigration officers shot and wounded people in Portland, Ore., Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

DOJ announces charges against illegal immigrant shot by Border Patrol in Portland

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents and K-9 security dogs keep watch at a checkpoint station, on Feb. 22, 2013, in Falfurrias, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS nabs migrant smuggler using tow truck to hide people

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents, aided by a dog and a Black Hawk helicopter, search for a group of migrants evading capture at the base of the Baboquivari Mountains, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022, near Sasabe, Ariz. TThe desert region located in the Tucson sector just north of Mexico is one of the deadliest stretches along the international border with rugged desert mountains, uneven topography, washes and triple-digit temperatures in the summer months. Border Patrol agents performed 3,000 rescues in the sector in the past 12 months. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Assaults on Border Patrol agents rise as border chaos spreads

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., presides over a markup of pending bills, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Waters: Border agents ‘whipping’ migrants ‘worse than what we saw with slavery’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, second left, visit the Paso del Norte (PDN) Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, Friday, June 25, 2021. The Paso del Norte Port of Entry is one of the country's busiest pedestrian border crossings. It is located on the Paso Del Norte International Bridge. Thousands of people cross the border through the Port each day.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kamala Harris makes first visit to southern border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, May 2, 2019, photo, Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Migrant surge shows Border Patrol is ‘critically understaffed,’ Jody Hice says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Border Patrol agents repel migrant caravan ‘violent mob’ with tear gas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Hidden inside a load of green peppers, sealed in bales of coiled cable wire, stuffed inside the cups of women's bras — drug runners are finding increasingly innovative places to stash their illicit cargo as they try to sneak it by U.S. border guards. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Drug smugglers get creative in bids to elude U.S. border guards

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Border Patrol overwhelmed in South Texas

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

A forensic glove is located in the crime scene after a U.S. Border Patrol kidnapped and assaulted three immigrants from Honduras Thursday March 13, 2014, in Mission, Texas. Esteban Manzanares shot himself in the head killing himself before FBI agents entered his apartment. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

Officials: Attacked immigrants were surrendering

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and JUAN CARLOS LLORCA - Associated Press

FILE - This July 29, 2010 file photo shows a Border Patrol agent checking the identification card of a bus driver at a checkpoint in Amado, Ariz. The American Civil Liberties Union reported Wednesday Jan. 15, 2014 that border patrol agents at checkpoints across southern Arizona are routinely violating the constitutional rights of U.S. residents, including unjustified detentions and illegal searches as a pretext to investigating other criminal activity in violation of the agency's mandate that stops be limited to inquiring about citizenship and visually inspecting vehicles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, file)

Probe sought of Border Patrol checkpoint actions

By BRIAN SKOLOFF - Associated Press

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Border Patrol shuns ATF whistleblower after Fast and Furious book controversy

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

This portion of a border fence stretches west of Nogales, Ariz., into the Coronado National Forest. An Arizona lawmaker, Republican state Sen. Steve Smith, who is leading an effort to build additional fences near the state's border with Mexico through donations, said he expects to begin construction on more barriers next year. (The Arizona Republic via Associated Press)

Mexican amusement park offers fake border-crossing attraction

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times