GREGORY BOVINO: Anything less is just expensive theater that tells every illegal in the country: “Relax, they’re only coming for the ‘bad ones’… eventually.” The system is broken by design. We’re not fixing it with teaspoons.

It’s not strategy — it’s a jobs program for bureaucrats who want to look busy while the border starts to deteriorate and American families keep getting robbed. --Greg Bovino

Targeted enforcement under Tom Homan sounds smart on TV.
It’s actually one of the dumbest uses of manpower I’ve ever heard of.

Just laid it out on @MegynKellyShow

Here’s a real-world system failure straight from CBP officers who lived it and then relayed to me as having… https://t.co/BRaKBz0jyJ

— Gregory K Bovino (@GregoryKBovino) May 15, 2026

TRANSCRIPT

"America no longer seems to have the will, the stamina, the drive, or the desire to chase down millions of illegals who are not already on detainers or warrants.  The country has quietly accepted a de facto amnesty for anyone who stays out of trouble."  That's so true!!  Is that [not] totally true, Gregory?

It is in many aspects.  I'll tell you, it's easy to talk tough when Biden is in office or Hussein Obammer was in office, or when Hillary Clinton was in office, it's easy to talk tough, but when it comes to actually putting hands on those illegal aliens and deporting, it starts separating immigration officers from politicians, immigration officers from people who like to talk tough but when it comes down to actually doing that work, missing in action.  A lot of those individuals you mentioned, I never heard from them for a year, for a year, while we were in the field in operation at large across the six cities.  Never heard from them for an entire year.  It was on us, on us, to do these mass deportations, which was fine, that's good, we'll accept that.  But a lot of work to be done.  As far as the will, do we have the will to do this?  Well, if you talk to Everyday citizens, it sure seems that we do.  I run into citizens everyday that say, "Hey, you're going back in the field to do that, right?  This isn't over, right?"  90% of the people that I talk to want that done.  95% of all immigration officers, I'm talking the rank and file there, let's make a distinction the rank and file, they want it to be done.  So there's a lot of will.  It's just . . . I think that will gets lost in the talking points of those who have lost their will: the Rhinos, the politicians, the people that it scares to get outside of status quo and that's what this is all about is outside the status quo. How are you going to move the ball down the field? Moving the ball down the field sometimes is very difficult, unpretty, dirty process.  You know, you got to get your britches dirty, in other words.  So I think that scares a lot of people.  It puts them outside their comfort zone.  What happens to bureaucrats and politicians when they're outside their comfort zone?

THIS CLIP SHOWS TOM HOMAN'S INTERVIEW WHERE HE HESITATES ON AMNESTY

“That softer approach means a much harder approach for U.S. citizens…”@GregoryKBovino on the Trump administration taking a “softer” approach now on deportations.

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