{"id":69861,"date":"2026-03-24T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/ex-border-patrol-chief-defends-his-record-after-exit-i-wish-id-caught-more-illegal-aliens\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:55:35","slug":"ex-border-patrol-chief-defends-his-record-after-exit-i-wish-id-caught-more-illegal-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/ex-border-patrol-chief-defends-his-record-after-exit-i-wish-id-caught-more-illegal-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-border patrol chief defends his record after exit: \u2018I wish I\u2019d caught more illegal aliens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Bovino says Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown hasn\u2019t gone far enough in exit interview with the New York Times<\/p>\n<p>As his retirement looms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/27\/gregory-bovino-analysis-minneapolis-alex-pretti\">Gregory Bovino<\/a>, the US border patrol\u2019s former commander-at-large, has contended that efforts to curb illegal immigration by Donald Trump\u2019s administration have not gone far enough \u2013 showing no remorse over federal agents\u2019 killings of two US citizens in Minneapolis in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I\u2019d caught even more illegal aliens,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/24\/us\/gregory-bovino-border-patrol.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">he told the New York Times<\/a> on Tuesday in an exit interview, during which he also referred to the Republican president as \u201cthe Trumpster\u201d and acknowledged his retirement at the end of March was not entirely voluntary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-retirement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Bovino says Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown hasn\u2019t gone far enough in exit interview with the New York Times As his retirement looms, Gregory Bovino, the US border patrol\u2019s former commander-at-large, has contended that efforts to curb illegal immigration by Donald Trump\u2019s administration have not gone far enough \u2013 showing no remorse over federal agents\u2019 killings &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-border patrol chief defends his record after exit: \u2018I wish I\u2019d caught more illegal aliens\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/ex-border-patrol-chief-defends-his-record-after-exit-i-wish-id-caught-more-illegal-aliens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-border patrol chief defends his record after exit: \u2018I wish I\u2019d caught more illegal aliens\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}