{"id":1979979,"date":"2023-07-21T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-chief-relieved-of-command-same-day-he-testified-before-congress-raising-retaliation-concerns\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:17:23","slug":"border-patrol-chief-relieved-of-command-same-day-he-testified-before-congress-raising-retaliation-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-chief-relieved-of-command-same-day-he-testified-before-congress-raising-retaliation-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Chief removed after testifying before Congress, sparking retaliation fears."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-patrol-chief-relieved-of-command-same-day-he-testified-before-congress-raising-retaliation-concerns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0722\/5a8c464c-88ac-4a10-b056-a8b51f96dd4e\/audio.mp3?length=3283821&#038;duration=274\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>House\u200c Republican Leaders \u200bSuspect Retaliation Against Border Patrol Chief<\/h2>\n<p>House Republican leaders have raised \u200dconcerns that a Border Patrol\u2064 chief may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-leguizamo-blasts-hollywood-for-colorism-i-stayed-out-of-the-sun-so-i-could-work\/\" title=\"John Leguizamo Blasts Hollywood for 'Colorism:' 'I Stayed Out of the Sun So I Could Work'\">faced retaliation<\/a> from \u200dthe U.S. Customs and Border \u2064Protection (CBP) chief after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-state-board-of-education-sued-for-allegedly-banning-criticism-of-1619-project\/\" title=\"Ohio State Board of Education Sued for Allegedly Banning Criticism of \u20181619 Project\u2019\">providing testimony<\/a> to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory K. Bovino, the chief \u2064patrol agent of the El\u200b Centro Border \u2064Patrol sector in California&#8217;s imperial valley, recently participated in\u200b a transcribed interview with the House \u200cOversight Committee\u200d and House Homeland Security Committee. However, shortly after his testimony, Mr. Bovino was unexpectedly relieved of his command and reassigned to an ambiguous and temporary headquarters\u2064 position.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of this reassignment has raised \u2062suspicions among Republican \u2064lawmakers that it was a direct response to Mr. Bovino&#8217;s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b a letter \u2064to acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller,\u200d the \u200clawmakers shared allegations from a \u200dwhistleblower, claiming that Mr. Bovino&#8217;s new assignment lacks a clear purpose and timeline. They also suggested \u200dthat this reassignment tactic is commonly used by CBP officials to\u2063 pressure\u200c employees into leaving the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-chief-relieved-of-command-same-day-he-testified-before-congress-raising-retaliation-concerns\/\" title=\"Border Patrol Chief removed after testifying before Congress, sparking retaliation fears.\">lawmakers cited additional whistleblower allegations<\/a> that Mr. Bovino may have faced verbal reprimands from headquarters officials due to unsatisfactory written testimony prepared for the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking answers, the Republican lawmakers have \u2063called on the acting CBP commissioner \u200dto provide all relevant documents and communications related to Mr. Bovino&#8217;s employment. They\u2063 have \u200balso requested records of\u200c any discussions between CBP, \u2063the Department of \u2062Homeland Security, or the\u200c White House\u200b regarding Mr. Bovino&#8217;s past congressional testimony or appearances as a witness \u200dfor transcribed interviews.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers have set a deadline of July 28\u2064 for Mr. Miller to\u200c be prepared to brief House committee staff on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>NTD News reached out to CBP\u200c for comment, but the agency did not respond at the time of publishing this article.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u200ca statement obtained by\u200d The Washington Times, CBP mentioned that Mr. Bovino had \u200cpreviously been reassigned to a headquarters position in 2021, and his subordinates had performed exceptionally well in managing the El\u200c Centro border sector during his absence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leaders suspect that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief retaliated against a Border Patrol chief for testifying before Congress. Gregory K. Bovino, the chief patrol agent of California&#8217;s El Centro Border Patrol sector, may have been targeted after his transcribed interview with lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1979980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}