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TPM Video: Chris Mathias Breaks Down What Ex-CBP Commander Greg Bovino Was Up to at a European Fascist Conference
06.04.26 | 10:31 am

Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-At-Large Greg Bovino is best known for his lead role in White House’s lethal immigration sweeps across America and for his famous Nazi SS-style trench coat. So it’s not exactly a surprise that he is spending his retirement doing interviews with avowed anti-semites and attending extremist conferences.

Still, it’s worth taking a close look at who, exactly, one of the people Trump selected as a top American immigration official is rubbing shoulders with, and what these people represent. Freelance journalist and author of “To Catch a Fascist” Chris Mathias broke down Bovino’s recent attendance at the “Remigration Summit” in Portugal with TPM publisher Joe Ragazzo on Substack Live.

@letsgomathias.bsky.social: "The face of immigration raids in the U.S. has had an ongoing dialogue with one of the most famous neo-Nazis in the world, who…had a correspondence with a man who murdered Muslims in New Zealand. That’s the water Bovino is swimming in.”substack.com/@joeragazzo/…

Allegra Kirkland (@allegrak.bsky.social) 2026-06-05T16:34:11.230Z

For more from Chris, check out his full TPM piece on Bovino’s pals and an excerpt from his book that we ran earlier this year: “What an Antifa Activist Learned While Undercover With Patriot Front.”

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