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Top deportation goon gets ejected from Minnesota



On Monday, the mad king Donald Trump cried uncle in Minneapolis,
uncharacteristically making nice with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and, for the
first time since taking office, appearing to de-escalate his war on
Democratic-run cities.

By Monday evening, The Atlantic’s Mick Miroff reported that Border Patrol
chief Greg Bovino wasn’t merely being sent out of Minnesota, he was being fully
demoted, with his entire social media operation dismantled.

“Bovino became a MAGA social-media star as he traveled the country with his
own film crew and used social media to hit back at Democratic politicians and
random critics online,” reported Miroff. “Veteran ICE and CBP officials grew
more and more uneasy as Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and
appeared to relish his role as a political actor.”




 



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There is zero chance Trump cared about any official unease. What likely
enraged him was how catastrophically he and Department of Homeland Security
Secretary Kristi Noem handled the aftermath of the Border Patrol’s killing of
Alex Pretti. The lies that followed were so brazen and clumsy that even many
Republicans struggled to defend them. That list, apparently, included Trump
himself.

And the fallout may not stop with Bovino. Miroff reported that Noem and her
close adviser Corey Lewandowski, Bovino’s biggest backers inside DHS, are now
themselves at risk of losing their jobs. One can only hope.

The demotion also follows Miroff’s reporting from Saturday detailing deepening
recruitment and training problems inside Border Patrol and ICE, problems that
the Minneapolis operation has only made worse.

“One ICE official I spoke with told me that some of the new hires, especially
rehired retirees, are having second thoughts,” Miroff wrote. “Hundreds of the
returning officers have been ordered to Minnesota, two officials said, where
the administration is conducting the largest-ever DHS crackdown. Some officers
have been so cold and miserable that they’ve already quit, and ICE officials
have held calls to figure out how to deal with the sudden resignations.”

But the problem isn’t just the weather. Previous administrations were capable
of deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records without laying siege
to entire cities. What’s changed is the job itself.




 



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“Returning officers who have come back from retirement are finding themselves
in unfamiliar roles,” Miroff reported. “They spent much of their careers trying
to conduct low-key ‘targeted enforcement’ operations in which they planned
arrests in advance and sought to take suspects into custody in the safest and
least dramatic way possible. Now they’re out in the streets wearing masks, with
protesters yelling at them and video cameras rolling. ICE has changed, and the
job isn’t the same.”

ICE and Border Patrol have certainly changed. Defenders will argue that this
is just a temporary deviation, that these agencies can be restored to their
prior norms under a future administration. Maybe that will be true someday. But
it won’t be easy, because Trump and his allies didn’t just politicize these
agencies, they actively selected the worst people to staff them.

Who else willingly signs up to terrorize fellow Americans while hiding behind
masks, basking in confrontation as crowds scream in their faces? It takes a
particular kind of damaged psyche to want that job. And as countless videos
have shown, many of these people don’t just tolerate it, they revel in it.

That rot can’t be reformed away. It has to be torn out. The entire structure
needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch, with everyone who participated
in this era barred from future government service.



But that reckoning can wait. For now, good riddance to Bovino. If luck holds,
he’s gone for good.

Noem should be next. Perhaps she’ll spare herself the humiliation and resign
before Trump does what he always does in the end: making sure loyalty is a
one-way street.



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