No other Border Patrol sector comes close to the ‘disproportionate’ level of force used by Gregory Bovino’s hardcore anti-immigration unit, according to a damning watchdog report.
Bovino, who is chief of the El Centro Sector in California and was the Trump administration’s on-the-ground enforcer in Los Angeles, is now lead commander for ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ in Illinois. In the past two months, he has overseen several high-profile incidents in which U.S. citizens were assaulted and children were tear-gassed.
This has seen Bovino and the Department of Homeland Security taken to court by journalists and activists over his team’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and its unnecessary use of chemical weapons.
In response, Bovino has insisted his “Green Army” always uses propo

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