The Trump administration’s mass deportation crusade was shifting into high gear with the rollout of a nationwide ‘city-hopping’ blitz when controversial shootings in Minnesota derailed that train as it left the station, recently-retired U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Commander Gregory K. Bovino revealed in a new interview with Border Hawk.
Bovino explained how USBP tactical units and supporting agencies deployed from military aircraft in the middle of the night and took Chicago by storm.
Commander Bovino: Border Patrol Was Launching Nationwide Lightning Strikes From Military Aircraft When Minneapolis Clashes Killed Mass Deportation Momentum
The Trump administration’s mass deportation crusade was shifting into high gear with the rollout of a nationwide… pic.twitter.com/saEwp8Nj42
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“The Chicago quick-strike operation was a thing of beauty, an absolute gem,” Bovino beamed.
“We loaded up on C-130s, C-47s — hundreds of Border Patrol agents in the middle of the night… We left under the cover of darkness, landed with all equipment, ready to go, off the airstrip, off the transport planes, right into everything we needed. Straight into Little Village in Chicago we went. We took them by complete surprise. They were definitely not expecting the Mean Green Team to be there at 6 a.m.”
Bovino said his men were preparing to carry out similar lightning strikes “multiple times a day, throughout the United States, in addition to those large-scale, conventional operations” when the Trump administration caved to political pressure following the deaths of left-wing activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
“We have the manpower, the know-how, the equipment. All we needed was the willpower. Unfortunately, that willpower left us like a balloon shooting in the air there in Minneapolis,” Bovino asserted.
“Large scale, total-spectrum immigration enforcement — we were right on the cusp. The good thing is, we can get that back because U.S. Border Patrol have that in their playbook, ready to go at a moment’s notice. That’s your expeditionary force. That’s your uniformed special operations immigration team. They can do that, and it’s really not that hard because they spent a year perfecting that craft, perfecting that mission in any environment in the United States or said territories of the United States. Permissive or non-permissive, it doesn’t matter. They’re ready to go. It’s just that willpower.”
KEY POINTS:
1:37 – What is the Trump administration’s current direction on deportations?
2:00 – Illegal aliens and foreign criminals are “once again walking with impunity in the U.S.”
4:22 – Officers at ports of entry reported unprecedented self-deportation traffic during Operation At-Large
5:30 – DHS rarely promoting CBP Home app
6:40 – Border Czar Tom Homan’s claim of 20 million illegal aliens in U.S. ‘out of touch’
10:00 – Professional observations, empirical data support Bovino’s estimated 100 million illegals
14:55 – Rollout of ‘quick-strike operation’ in Chicago: USBP deployed from military aircraft in middle of night, took city by surprise
17:10 – Sanctuary officials are more evil than criminal illegal aliens
18:15 – Plan for nationwide lightning strikes suspended after Minneapolis agitators killed
19:20 – State and local law enforcement “raring” to join mass deportation campaign
24:30 – Border Patrol teams can crush Antifa riots within minutes when unleashed, as proven in Chicago, Minneapolis
27:30 – 150 USBP agents suppressed thousands of militants in Los Angeles without any casualties
33:00 – Sanctuary policies beget widespread lawlessness
36:18 – Law and order must trump mob rule or Americans will start taking matters into their own hands
38:15 – Bovino VS. Bovine: obese leftist demands he leave ‘her town’ during confrontation at North Carolina gym
42:20 – American and European immigration patriots must unite to “rid ourselves of this plague” of foreign invaders
See our previous interview with Commander Bovino:
EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Man Who Had a Plan to Deport 100 Million Illegal Aliens
Watch our full interview with @GregoryKBovino to learn how he planned to remove or drive out 100 million invaders, and how that operation was derailed just before it reached escape velocity . . . pic.twitter.com/qCu4E3dhGz
— Border Hawk (@BorderHawkNews) April 29, 2026
