Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino on Thursday held Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom “responsible” for violence against immigration agents after Newsom compared him to a Nazi.
During a Wednesday interview at Davos, Switzerland’s World Economic Forum, Newsom mocked Bovino’s Border Patrol uniform, saying he looks like “he literally went on eBay and purchased SS garb.” Newsom also characterized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations as “secret police, private army, masked men, people disappearing quite literally, no due process.”
Bovino responded by blaming Newsom for creating an environment that he says puts immigration agents at risk.
“Governor Newsom’s had a long record of lying, and again, those are … lies,” Bivono told the Daily Caller News Foundation at a Thursday press conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “I don’t shop on eBay. This ‘garb,’ as he quite uneloquently puts it, is a standard Border Patrol issue, has been since May the 28th, 1924.”
Bovino pointed to a rise in violence against immigration officials nationwide, including in California and Minnesota, where clashes between federal agents and local residents have escalated during enforcement operations. He also blamed heated rhetoric from Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey — who have called ICE “Gestapo” and urged agents to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
“He’s enjoying Davos and whatever he’s enjoying over there,” Bovino said about Newsom. “Our agents are being assaulted and stalked by violent rioters, many of which, I believe … draw inspiration from his words when we operate in California because he says the same thing, some of the same things that Frey and Walz said. So, he is responsible for that very violence that our agents are subject to on a daily basis.”
‘He’s responsible for that very violence that our agents are subject to’ @CMDROpAtLargeCA responds to California Governor Gavin Newsom who took shots at Bovino when he took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/OkdJaVreQK
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) January 22, 2026
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