Greg Bovino is Never Beating the Nazi Allegations

Normally, there’d be zero cause to spare any extra attention for Gregory Bovino, the (mostly irrelevant) ex-border-patrol chief who was fired from his post in January, has since tried to openly flirt with a journalist for some homemade pie, and who’s been launching one pathetic bid after another to slither his way back into the worst arm of Trump’s deportation campaign. But these aren’t normal times: conservatives are building themselves a Hitler-friendly enclave, and Bovino’s most recent post-administration pit stop was a literal neo-Nazi conference in Portugal. Anyone else hear the klaxons?

It turns out Bovino’s never living down the Gestapo allegations—and emerged this weekend to speak at a Remigration Summit in Porto, whose chief organizer Afonso Gonçalves once said, “Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions.” (Gonçalves also founded an organization interested in kicking Muslims out of the country.) The concept of remigration has been popularized among far-right Europeans, as a solution to the Great Replacement theory, or the ethno-nationalist conspiracy that suggests white people have been displaced from their own countries. Yikes! 

“Over the past year, remigration did actually occur,” Bovino told reporters during the event. “There’s still a hundred million illegal aliens in the United States and they’ve got a long way to go.” (This is a vast overcount.) He added that the president might benefit from “better advice” when it comes to pursuing the administration’s deportation campaign, before then making some backhanded compliments about Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

“[He’s] a great guy, great plumber, no doubt about that,” Bovino said. “He could probably fix a leaky faucet. But a hundred million illegal aliens is not a leaky faucet.” Which, um, isn’t the exact flaws I’d point out about Mullin—who once joked about shooting journalists—but OK! 

Bovino posted this on X earlier today, so suffice to say I think there’s a particular audience he’s pandering to now after being proverbially driven out of town

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— Michael Colborne (@colborne.bsky.social) May 29, 2026 at 4:05 PM

Ahead of Sunday’s event, Bovino also said said he’s no longer “battl[ing]” immigrants—but “timid politicians” that are taking what he considers too soft a hand. Friendly reminder that this is the same man who ran various ICE operations last year, where he was seen on camera pelting tear gas canisters at protesters; where at least one baby was pepper-sprayed in the eyes; and where at least two Americans were killed.

On Twitter, Bovino wrote, “Trump’s team says immigration is his top issue according to the polls. Voters trust him on the border more than anyone…You don’t win by running away from your strongest issue. Mass deportations are the solution to perpetual victory!” About a day earlier, he also posted an open letter to ICE agents in Newark, New Jersey, where inmates have been waging a hunger strikes amid reported conditions of inedible food and inadequate medical treatment: “ICE Agents at Delaney, hang in there,” he wrote, attaching an image of himself holding up his right hand with a flattened palm—in case anyone thought he might still be trying hide Nazi sympathies.

All this comes as the addendum to a crescendo of posts in which Bovino has repeatedly tried to manifest his job back—most of which have gone ignored. Let’s hope it stays that way.