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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

Who is Greg Bovino, the official spearheading Trump’s immigration crackdown?

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Gregory K Bovino, the chief patrol agent of the US border patrol’s El Centro sector, in Los Angeles, California, on 7 July. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Gregory Bovino is indisputably a man of the political times, perfectly in harmony with the signature theme of Donald Trump’s second presidency.

A previously unheralded regional border patrol agent, Bovino, 55, has risen to prominence in recent weeks as the publicity-hungry spearhead of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented people in Los Angeles.

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