U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino and some patrol agents are expected to “imminently” leave Minnesota, Fox News reports. “Multiple federal sources confirm to @FoxNews that Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino & some, not all Border Patrol agents, will be leaving the state of Minnesota imminently,” Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin said. BREAKING: Multiple federal sources confirm to @FoxNews that Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino & some, not all Border Patrol agents, will be leaving the state of Minnesota imminently. — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 26, 2026 Fox News has more: Bovino and an unspecified number of U.S. Border Patrol agents will be leaving the state as soon as Tuesday, multiple federal sources told Fox News. The news came the same day that President Donald Trump announced that he would be deploying border czar Tom Homan to take point in Minnesota. White House Press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday defended Bovino, calling him a “wonderful man, and he’s a great professional.” “He is going to very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol, throughout and across the country,” Leavitt said. “Mr. Homan will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis to follow up.” It’s unclear how many Border Patrol agents will leave Minnesota and if the impending departure includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. “Operation Metro Surge has more than 3,000 federal agents in Minnesota for immigration enforcement,” FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul noted. Approximately 2,000 are ICE agents and about 1,000 are Customs and Border Patrol agents. Bovino urged people not to continue to “interfere, obstruct, delay or assault law enforcement.” Check it out: At a news conference Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino urged people not to continue to “interfere, obstruct, delay or assault law enforcement.” pic.twitter.com/e5cBA4Zvp3 — NTD News (@NTDNews) January 26, 2026 “The White House says Bovino will retain a national leadership role even as federal authorities reshuffle immigration enforcement in Minnesota,” Fox News stated. “He is going to have very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol, throughout and across the country.” The White House says Bovino will retain a national leadership role even as federal authorities reshuffle immigration enforcement in Minnesota.https://t.co/OGzQjISYLs — Fox News (@FoxNews) January 26, 2026 FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul shared further: A North Carolina native, he joined the Border Patrol in 1996 and is nearing the agency’s mandatory retirement age of 57. Under the Biden administration, he was relieved of command of the agency’s El Centro, California, sector, where he rose to be one of 20 regional chiefs across the country. The details weren’t reported, but The Associated Press says it involved an online profile picture of him posing with an M4 assault rifle; social media posts that were considered inappropriate; and sworn congressional testimony that he and other sector chiefs gave on the state of the border during a record surge of migrants. Since then, under Trump’s second administration, Bovino has risen to prominence as the president launched his aggressive immigration crackdowns across the country.