Greg Bovino appears to be driving back to California after being reassigned from Minneapolis.
Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commander at large, briefly became the public face of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota. He held a series of news conferences last week and was captured on video tossing a smoke canister in a south Minneapolis park.
But the White House shuffled its Minnesota personnel plan following the weekend shooting of Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, and border czar Tom Homan has since arrived in the state to lead the operation.
Eagle-eyed observers spotted Bovino in South Dakota and Wyoming as he traveled west in a convoy of SUVs earlier this week. By Tuesday evening, Bovino checked in to a hotel in Rapid City, S.D., confirmed a source who had contact with him but asked not to be identified because their job would be at risk.
Then on Wednesday evening, Bovino was seen near Mount Rushmore in a video message posted to X by Nick Sortor, a conservative influencer. Bovino said he was proud of the work of the “mean green machine” in Minneapolis.
In the video, Bovino references Mount Rushmore and said: “Team, behind me are a few individuals there, that’s the original turn and burn. The folks that helped make America.”
On Thursday morning, Megan Pope, a Wyoming resident, filmed the convoy checking out of a hotel in southwestern Wyoming. She shared the video with the Minnesota Star Tribune: A man resembling Bovino seen outside a black SUV with law enforcement vehicles surrounding the car.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol confirmed in an email that troopers were dispatched to a hotel in Rock Springs this morning after a “small group of protesters” arrived at the hotel’s parking lot and prevented federal agents from entering their vehicles.
