Border Patrol Chief Relieved Of Command Same Day He Testified Before Congress, Raising Retaliation Concerns: House GOP

 House Republican leaders have raised the prospect that a Border Patrol chief was the target of retaliation by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection chief after the Border Patrol official sat for a transcribed interview with Congress.

Gregory K. Bovino, the chief patrol agent of the El Centro Border Patrol sector in California's imperial valley, offered a transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee and House Homeland Security Committee on July 12, 2023.

The timing of Mr. Bovino's reassignment raised suspicions for Mr. Comer and Mr. Green that the CBP had reassigned the Border Patrol official in retaliation for his testimony.

Mr. Bovino was one of several Border Patrol sector chiefs who were invited to testify at a House Oversight Committee hearing earlier this year, but Mr. Comer accused Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of blocking some of the Border Patrol officials from doing so.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol Chief Gloria Chavez and Tucson Sector Chief John Modlin did testify, but Mr. Bovino and others did not appear for the hearing.

"It is unfortunate that you are trying to prevent the American people from hearing candid and truthful testimony of U.S. Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agents," Mr. Comer wrote in a Jan. 27 letter to Mr. Mayorkas.

After Mr. Bovino and other Border Patrol officials were blocked from attending the Feb. 7 hearing, Mr. Comer sent a letter to Mr. Miller, requesting that he help facilitate interview times for Mr. Bovino and the other Border Patrol officials.

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