Greg Bovino, the former face of Donald Trump’s immigrant roundup, says he’s considering running for president in 2028. Maybe.
The former U.S. Border Patrol commander at large who was forced into retirement in March is sending mixed signals about his political ambitions.
On June 9, Bovino posted on X: “To clarify, I am not running at this time. Let’s now focus on mass deportations!”
That was in response to multiple news outlets — including The Hill and NewsNation — reporting Bovino is exploring a presidential run.
Image from Bovino for president website
He told NewsNation in an interview his potential run is exploratory and a formal campaign will commence “if it all comes together.”
In the first year of the second Trump administration, Bovino became the face of the harshest images of mass deportations. He was forced into retirement, however, after two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal officers in Minneapolis.
The Hill quoted Bovino from a post on X that now has been removed: “Here’s the truth: My one and only priority is deporting the 106 million illegals who are here. That’s it. The grassroots support I’m seeing tells me the polls are completely wrong. … If I’m getting this much energy, it’s probably because 90% of the country wants mass deportations and the media just isn’t asking the right questions”
Bovino said his commitment is to “liberate America from this invasion and restore our quality of life.”
A website called Bovino 2028 has been launched, but it is not clear whether it was created by Bovino himself or by some of his allies promoting his candidacy.
The Daily Beast attributes the website and draft campaign to Jacob Engels, 34, and George Riley, former executive director of the Republican Party of Florida.
A disclaimer at the bottom of the home page says in small type: “Grassroots effort formed by Americans starving for true American sovereignty not affiliated with any candidate or candidates committee. Purely a volunteer effort hoping to draft Bovino for president in 2028.”
The platform outlined there is extreme by almost any measure. Among other ideas, it calls for:
- “Total border closure”
- Permanent immigration hold
- “Immediate forced remigrations of all illegals”
- Imposing an “illegal remigration fee” for every person remigrated
- “Formation of the protective office for American Women to aggressively serve justice on behalf of those ravaged at the hands of vicious illegal aliens.”
- “Nationwide, statewide and local campaign to make harm on animals the equivalent penalty of harming a human being, as it pertains to rape, assault, abuse and murder.”
- “Identification of partner nation-states that are fighting parallel battles against mass illegal migration, allowing for expedited acceptance of individuals in like-minded homogenous peoples and cultures under attack from religious, political and racial hatred due to outside forces.”
- Formation of a “Department of Traditional Families and Holistic Living”
- Reconstituting the Department of Government Efficiency, to be “rebranded as the Office of American Government Accountability and Corruption Patrol.”
- Formation of a Department of Youth Masculinity “in order to save the young men of America from the impotent spell of a purely digital, basement-based existence and into warriors.”
- Establishing “permanent standing committees for community safety in each American city, duly elected by citizens of each community, to form volunteer protection forces trained and certified by a regional board of governors.”
- Compulsory voting, “meaning that those who are legally confirmed to be eligible and refuse to engage in the American electoral process will be required to deliver either a fixed rate of human capital that contributes to the betterment of American society or, if they so choose, a fixed financial cost.”
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