Bovino Launches Exploratory Committee for Presidential Campaign With Pledge to Deport 100 Million People
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/55630
Fresh off his appearance at a fascist conference in Portugal focused on "remigration," President Donald Trump's ex-Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino has teased a run for US president in 2028 centered around his fantasy of deporting 100 million people from the United States.
Amid public backlash following the killing of two US citizens by his federal agents in Minneapolis, Bovino was kicked from the helm of Trump’s mass deportation crusade in January and sent into early retirement.
But as he later discussed with The New York Times, he departed with a sense of unfinished business, unfulfilled that he could not exact what was described as a “master plan” to purge a third of the country.
As News Nation reported on Monday, Bovino is not one to give up on dreams easily. The 30-year Border Patrol veteran told the network that he was launching an exploratory committee for a White House run in 2028 and planned to move ahead with a formal campaign "if it all comes together."
The website for his committee, Bovino2028.com, which features an image of Bovino in his signature SS-style trenchcoat flanked by the phrase "House Bovino. Men Fight Back," gives a sense of the campaign he seeks to run.
The website describes a future President Bovino leading the US with a “warrior mindset," “quelling the foreign hordes that have subsumed our nation’s cities," and creating a “department of youth masculinity” to turn young men into “warriors for freedom,” and calls for the reestablishment of Elon Musk’s failed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
His website also does not shy away from acknowledging his role in a conference in late May were he appeared alongside representatives of the global far-right. As Charles R. Davis described late last month for The Redoubt:
The "Remigration Summit 2026," so called, was held May 30 at the Salmanha Residence hotel just south of Porto, Portugal, and its organizers were not subtle.
"Weimar conditions require Weimar solutions," argues Afonso Gonçalves, chief organizer of the event. He's the founder of the far-right group Reconquista, so named for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. That's who Bovino was photographed standing next to after he landed in Europe.
Martin Sellner, an extremist from Austria, is best known for pushing the "great replacement" conspiracy theory— that Jewish elites are seeking to exterminate the white race via mass migration—that has motivated mass shooters from Pennsylvania to New Zealand.
He was the other man standing next to Bovino.
Other speakers included a Belgian fascist convicted of Holocaust denial and the founder of a Swiss neo-Nazi group called "Junge Tat" who is quite open about his fondness for "National Socialism."
Bovino is not looking to hide his affiliations with prominent neo-Nazis. The site prominently features a photo of himself with Sellner, who at a previous summit outlined a plan for the forced expulsion of "non-assimilated" citizens of immigrant backgrounds from Germany.
The ex-Border Patrol commander said during the conference that his and Sellner's ideas "mirror each other."
Gregory Bovino poses with Martin Sellner in an image posted to his 2028 website.(Photo from Bovino2028.com)
Confirming that he was considering a presidential run on Monday, Bovino wrote on social media: "My one and only priority is deporting the 106 million illegals who are here. That’s it."
According to May data from the Center for Migration Studies, the number of undocumented immigrants actually in the United States was only about 14.6 million as of 2024, meaning that what Bovino is actually proposing is the mass expulsion of tens of millions of legal immigrants, as well as naturalized and US-born citizens.
David J. Bier, an immigration expert at the libertarian Cato Institute, testified about this plot by Bovino in front of the Senate Budget Committee in March, describing it as a plan for “ethnic cleansing"—and pushing back when one Republican senator dismissed the claim as "hyperbole."
Polls indicate Americans have overwhelmingly turned against Trump's crusade to round up millions of immigrants, with strong majorities having negative views of his tactics and of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In early March, just over a month after Bovino's tenure ended, a record 50% of Americans said in a YouGov poll that they would support abolishing ICE.
But Bovino said the "grassroots support" he's seeing indicates that "the polls are completely wrong."
He said: "If I’m getting this much energy, it’s probably because 90% of the country wants mass deportations, and the media just isn’t asking the right questions."
While it is difficult to see Bovino achieving mass appeal on the back of an immigration crusade even more extreme than Trump's, Oliver Willis, a writer for the Daily Kos said it was a sign of where the base of the GOP could be heading.
"The Republican Party has increasingly tied itself to the white supremacist movement through continued support of Trump and the rising influence of figures like conservative podcaster and neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes," he wrote. "Bovino considering a 2028 presidential bid shows that the party—and the wider conservative movement—isn’t moderating at all."
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To think. All of this could have been avoided if some rednecks had their dicks and heads cut off in 1865.
Maybe not all of it. The English Puritans did a lot of fucking up that country too
Geez, just call it a “final solution” and stop beating around the bush.
Why on earth would you think that's his mindset?
You can take that MAGAT hat off and that just don’t sit right with me. We need to mark all the IDF too.
US population is about 340M people. Deporting 100M would be about 1 in 3 people. Where will your food come from?
Brown people somewhere else.
If the people who proposed to such things were capable of that level of logical reasoning, they wouldn’t propose such things
No, they know exactly what they are proposing, don't ever let them convince you otherwise
TIL: Non whites make up just over 40% of US society. I wonder which 30% he means? /S
Slavery will continue, those subjected will be several million deemed impure
Robots
Glorious white robots.
These people don't really think it through.
They just don't like non-whites. And they don't like mouthy women. And non-xtians, and on and on...
But if you're honest about what needs to happen to people like him your comment gets deleted.
He should be shot.
I bet it stays.
He should be fucking eaten alive by pigs in front of his family on live tv. Screaming as bits are cut from him, and tossed to the animals. Stop fucking tolerating intolerance!
Maybe the mods are finally coming around.
Shooting Nazis is a proud, patriotic tradition.
One that should make a huge comeback
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Remember when the mainstream news media were pretending this dude was just an upstanding law enforcement official and that he had no Nazi tendencies?
No, but that's just because I remember stuff that happened...
Everyone was calling this guy a Nazi since day 1
Yeah, it was pretty obvious from the beginning
In the mainstream news media?! Nope.
Why is this lesbian aunt so angry?
Her Crocs are not as comfortable as they look.
Hauntingly familiar.
Bovino makes some more convincing Nazi. Because he actually is a Nazi.
Fuck off nazi!
Imagine kicking out 100 million Trump supporters.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
90% of the country wants 1/3 of the country deported?
I mean, I know that America is not great at numeracy, but....that would be wild if true. Of course, this guy is a short little asshole, so I'm sure it's just that HE is that bad at math.
Quick, someone buy BovinoIsABitch.com!
There is zero chance that two in every seven people in the US is here illegally.
He is a full on nazi. He doesn’t care about legality. He wants brown people dead along with anyone that would interfere.
That's what I'm thinking. Where is he getting this number?
The nebulous "left". They want to deport and jail antifa forces.
Based on my lazy googling, he's throwing out at least 50 million citizens.
I'm saying at least because Google's response counted naturalized citizens in the "not citizens" count of 47 million people.
So 97 million citizens.
The 47 million wasn't all naturalized citizens. It also included legal residents and undocumented individuals.
Fuck Google then.
Why?
For considering naturalized citizens as not citizens.
Ok. Just seemed like a late response.
Just a reminder that his parents live in blowing Rock North Carolina. He spends a lot of time in blowing rock the way I understand it. Do what that information what you will.
Hm, like Nazi Youth?
These people are fucking WEIRD. We need to get back to calling them that. Seeing Brainworm waxing on about sperm counts of young men....I mean what. the. actual. fuck.
How to completely tank an economy even harder than Trump.
There should be a campaign to have minorities show up in droves wherever this guy goes. Fill restaurants where he eats. Load up elevators so he's the only white person. Speak no English around him, period. Make his life nothing but the people he wants to exclude from society. Like a flash mob but for making Nazis feel outnumbered in the real world. White people can help by burning flags, bibles and gestapo effigies in his presence.
"Hi, I'm contacting you from my house where I live under a rock. See my attached article, could you publish this?"
That's the worst thing about trump. He was so ignorant and stupid and his bluster just made him fail upwards. Now every Tom, Dick and Harry thinks they can do it too. I think the constitution needs a few tweeks once everything settles down.
Why does Greg Bovino's face look like that? He looks like someone took a tuft of dog fur off the carpet, glued it to someone's pinky toe, and then drew an angry face on it.
100 million is nearly a third of the US population. What he wants is lebensraum.
It's not a hyperbole if that's literally what it is, by definition.
Also, let's not forget this gem:
Hitler youth. He wants to build hitler youth.
These people aren't even hiding their nazi sympathies.
That's a sensible opinion. He doesn't want to repeat the major mistakes of the Weimar Republic that led to the full destruction of the country and will continue promising projects like e.g. the ones of Dr. Hirschfeld, right?
Is this the flag of some new African country? And why would they want this dork?
This the same guy who Trump gave a lot of authority to and a ton of money and resources at, and who had Stephen Miller facilitating his goals... and who still failed spectacularly and was kicked to the curb?
He's a martinet - who also suffers from Little Man's Disease.
Dude needs a blowjob, desperately.
You volunteering? 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
Alas, there are many hits over the years I have taken for the team, but this one I must pass on.
Surely a paid performer could take up the challenge.
Maybe if he pledged to deport 350 million I could get behind that.
The trick would be finding some other country to accept them. They can't come up here to Canada.