Gavin Newsom Blasts Border Patrol’s Bovino As ‘Smallest Man’ Alive | EUROtoday

“Good riddance. You ruined lives. Spread fear. And spewed hatred,” Newsom wrote on X. “If you’re remembered, it will be as the smallest man who ever lived.”

The account for the governor’s press workplace additionally tried to needle the agent with an illustration of the Statue of Liberty bending down to inform a bawling Bovino, “You’re fired,” a phrase that lives in infamy from President Donald Trump’s run on “The Apprentice.”

Bovino turned the face of the second Trump administration’s nationwide deportation crackdown, overseeing the aggressive operations that sparked mass protests in Los Angeles final summer time.

Scrutiny on Bovino solely intensified after “Operation Midway Blitz,” when lots of of immigration brokers and National Guard troops have been deployed to Chicago and the encircling space.

He was faraway from his submit as Border Patrol’s “commander-at-large” in January after federal brokers killed American residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, which infected already-fierce backlash to Trump’s immigration crackdown domestically and throughout the nation.

Bovino, who has been with Border Patrol since 1996, advised Breitbart Texas that working with the company and its officers was “the greatest honor of my entire life.”