
Former Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino is accusing President Donald Trump's advisers of losing their nerve on mass deportations, sharpening an internal fight inside the MAGA movement over how far the administration should go after months of backlash to aggressive immigration raids.
Bovino, one of the most visible faces of Trump's immigration crackdown before his removal from a commander-in-chief role, criticized the president's current team in a lengthy interview released Tuesday, according to The Daily Beast. He praised former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, defended the large-scale operations she oversaw, and suggested that officials now guiding immigration policy lack Trump's toughness.