Gregory Bovino

Bovino said the prostitution allegation against Mike Banks had been investigated years ago and he was cleared, implying a politically timed smear.

“That had been investigated many years ago and he was cleared. So that's what they're not telling you”

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Bovino argued that interior enforcement directly determines what happens at the border, calling the border-first approach a fallacy.

“What happens in the interior directly correlates to what happens on the border”

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Bovino argued Trump should have gone harder in Minneapolis and that roving patrols were largely absent there.

“I think he should have went harder. Some things in Minneapolis that perhaps he doesn't know is those roving patrols”

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Bovino claimed daily border crossings have risen to about 490 from 90–100 a year ago when interior roving patrols were active.

“oftentimes these border crosser numbers would be 90 to 100 a day. Now they're 490, approaching 500 a day”

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Bovino claimed there are about 100 million illegal immigrants in the United States, citing commuter and school absence data from Charlotte.

“So 100 million, absolutely. I stand by it”

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Bovino said the administration has adopted a softer approach and predicted it will lead to Americans being killed by illegal immigrants.

“As sure as the sun rises today, Megan, American citizens are going to die at the hands of illegal aliens”

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Bovino supported E-Verify but described it as only one facet of total spectrum immigration enforcement alongside cutting remittances and welfare.

“E-Verify would be one facet of total spectrum immigration enforcement. You've got a whole bunch of other things, shutting down remittances”

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Bovino said the goal is self-deportation, which requires making life in the U.S. so hard that illegal immigrants cannot work or function.

“We would rather them self-deport rather than me put handcuffs on 100 million illegal aliens. Let's just have them self-deport for us”

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Bovino said he never heard from Tom Homan or Rodney Scott during his year of field operations.

“whether that was Tom Holman, Rodney Scott, you know, certainly I didn't hear from him for a year during that operation”

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