{"id":2017639,"date":"2023-08-31T01:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-applauds-reinstatement-of-colleague-amid-controversy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T01:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T05:28:59","slug":"former-border-patrol-chief-applauds-reinstatement-of-colleague-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-applauds-reinstatement-of-colleague-amid-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Border Patrol Chief supports colleague&#8217;s reinstatement despite controversy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fformer-border-patrol-chief-applauds-reinstatement-of-colleague-amid-controversy%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=2017639&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Former U.S. Border Patrol\u200b Chief Praises Reinstatement \u200dof Colleague<\/h2>\n<p>Former U.S. Border \u2064Patrol chief\u200b Rodney Scott sang the praises of \u2062one of his former colleagues, Gregory Bovino, on Wednesday after\u200d Mr. Bovino was briefly \u200cpulled from and then restored to\u200c his\u200c command as the Chief Border Patrol\u200c Agent for the El Centro,\u2064 California Border Sector.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Mr. Bovino\u200d was relieved of his command at the El Centro Border Sector and reassigned to a headquarters position in Washington D.C.\u2062 within hours of testifying\u200b before Congress about conditions along the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">southern border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Mr. Bovino&#8217;s reassignment,\u2064 House \u200bRepublican \u2062lawmakers raised\u2064 allegations from Border Patrol insiders that the reassignment had\u2063 been part of a retaliatory move to\u200b pressure\u2062 Mr. Bovino to leave \u2063the government agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related\u200d Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/smuggler-gun-violence-against-california-border-patrol-escalates-at-us-mexico-border-5480863\">Smuggler Gun Violence Against California Border Patrol Escalates at US-Mexico Border<\/a> (8\/25\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/travellers-caught-at-border-with-multiple-fraudulent-permanent-residency-cards-5480127\">Travellers Caught\u200b at Border With Multiple Fraudulent Permanent Residency Cards<\/a> (8\/24\/2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, \u200bHouse Oversight and\u2062 Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green \u2064(R-Tenn.) announced Mr.\u2062 Bovino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/border-patrol-chief-reinstated-after-his-ouster-sparked-retaliation-claims-5482130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had\u200d been reinstated<\/a> to his leadership\u200b position at the El Centro Border Sector, more than a month after \u2063the reassignment controversy began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No \u2064one \u200bcould\u2063 ever identify anything he \u2062had done wrong,&#8221; \u2063Mr. Scott told NTD News host Tiffany Meier. &#8220;I \u200dknow him\u2062 personally. His integrity \u2064is beyond\u2062 reproach. So his removal was a big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Mr. Bovino was initially \u200creassigned from the \u2063El\u2064 Centro Border Sector, Mr. Comer and Mr. Green raised whistleblower allegations that U.S. Customs and Border Protection \u200c(CBP) officials have used\u200c similar reassignment orders as a tactic to punish dissenters within the agency.<\/p>\n<p>For months, Republican lawmakers had sought \u2064Mr.\u2063 Bovino&#8217;s testimony about conditions on the border, but Homeland\u2063 Security \u2062Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appeared\u2063 to bar Mr. Bovino from attending a February hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Comer and Mr. Green raised allegations \u200bthat the El Centro Border Patrol chief had been verbally reprimanded for preparing testimony\u200c about conditions at the border that &#8220;was dissatisfactory to\u200c CBP officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Scott\u2063 alleged political retaliation is\u200c &#8220;very pervasive&#8221; throughout the Department of Homeland Security and component agencies like CBP. Mr. Scott had served as the top Border Patrol official from \u2064January 2020 until June 2021, when he said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/biden-administration-removes-border-patrol-chief-rodney-scott-3872935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he was given a &#8220;3R&#8221; letter<\/a> informing \u2063him that\u200b he must either retire, resign, or relocate \u2063to a different job within the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a victim of [retaliation] early \u2062on, when I was being reassigned from the chief,&#8221; Mr. Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, they couldn&#8217;t highlight anything. Backdoor information was that they speculated that we were aligned with the Republican Party just because we told them at the border if they did the policies they were talking about, the border was going to get out of control, there&#8217;s \u200dgoing to be chaos, all of which \u2062turned out true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Then-President Donald Trump speaks with then-Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott (R) \u2064as\u2062 they participate in a ceremony commemorating the 200th\u2064 mile of\u2062 border \u2064wall at the international border with Mexico in San Luis, Ariz., on June 23,\u2063 2020. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Scott said President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration has broadly prohibited \u2063CBP and Border Patrol officials from providing much \u200dinformation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">news media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They try to very tightly control the messaging, and anybody that actually speaks the truth \u2064is potentially suffering retaliation in this administration,&#8221; Mr. Scott said.<\/p>\n<p>NTD News reached out to both CBP\u2064 and the Department of Homeland Security for comment. Neither office responded by the time this article was published.<\/p>\n<h2>Skepticism of Biden Admin \u200cBorder Claims<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has phased out the Title 42 \u200dpandemic-era border control\u2064 measures, which had allowed U.S. officials to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-applauds-reinstatement-of-colleague-amid-controversy\/\" title=\"Former Border Patrol Chief supports colleague's reinstatement despite controversy.\">rapidly expel illegal immigrants arriving<\/a>\u200c at the border.\u200c The Biden \u200badministration paired the end of Title 42 policies with the rollout \u200dof\u2063 new parole programs to process people arriving at the Southern Border.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mayorkas began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/14\/politics\/alejandro-mayorkas-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claiming<\/a> significant \u2062drops in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-hellbent-on-destructive-border-policies-gop-leader-vows-to-bring-republican-lawmakers-to-southern-border-to-highlight-crisis\/\" title=\"Biden \u2018Hellbent On Destructive Border Policies\u2019: GOP Leader Vows To Bring Republican Lawmakers To Southern Border To Highlight Crisis\">daily border encounters<\/a> within days of\u200c the Title \u200d42 \u2062authorities\u200c expiring. In a July interview, Mr. Mayorkas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/mayorkas-claims-illegal-border-crossings-are-down-65-percent-due-to-new-biden-policies-5413725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed border \u2063officials have seen an approximately 65 percent \u200bdrop<\/a> in the number of people encountered at the border since Title 42.<\/p>\n<p>According to CBP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">records<\/a>, there were about 212,000 \u200bborder encounters in April, the\u200d last full \u2064month Title \u200b42\u2062 authorities were in place. That\u200d number fell to about\u200c 207,000 encounters in May, with Title 42 authorities ending \u2063on May 11. By June,\u2062 the first month\u200d without Title \u206242 policies in place, the number of border \u200cencounters CBP recorded fell\u2064 to around 145,000. In\u2062 July, the number of reported encounters rose once more to about 184,000.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Scott urged skepticism over \u2062how Biden administration officials have presented \u2063border encounter statistics in recent \u200cmonths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop listening\u200c to \u200dhow this administration picks one or two numbers \u200cand then spins it and tries to say the \u2064border&#8217;s secure,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>People walk\u2063 between\u200b razor wire and a string \u200cof buoys placed on\u2063 the water \u2062along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on \u2062July 16, 2023. (Suzanne Cordeiro\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican lawmakers have also urged skepticism of\u2064 how the Biden administration<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the El Centro, California Border Sector but has now been reinstated. 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