{"id":431692,"date":"2026-01-26T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:51:10","slug":"commander-gregory-bovino-some-border-patrol-agents-set-to-leave-minneapolis-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431692\/","title":{"rendered":"Commander Gregory Bovino, some Border Patrol agents set to leave Minneapolis, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outspoken Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and some of his green-uniformed agents are expected to soon leave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/live-updates\/reported-shooting-south-minneapolis-federal-agents-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Minneapolis area<\/a>, three sources familiar with the move tell CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sources said Bovino was relieved of his command in Minneapolis and is expected to return to California&#8217;s El Centro sector, where he served as the chief agent before the Trump administration deployed him to major American cities, including Los Angeles and Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows intense backlash over how top federal officials, including Bovino, responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/videos-minneapolis-shooting-witnesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti<\/a>. Bovino, citing no evidence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-causes-internal-anger-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suggested<\/a> over the weekend Pretti intended to &#8220;massacre&#8221; federal agents. Some of the claims by Bovino and other officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alex-pretti-shooting-contrast-official-accounts-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were contradicted<\/a> by witnesses and video from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>News of Bovino&#8217;s impending departure came hours after President Trump said Tom Homan, the White House border czar, would be heading to Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n              Go deeper with The Free Press\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Outspoken Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino and some of his green-uniformed agents are expected to soon leave the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,16950,3,72963,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-431692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-minneapolis","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-u-s-customs-and-border-protection","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}