CBP Commander Greg Bovino Is Taking Guest Speaker Spots At White Nationalist Conferences

from the goes-wherever-the-hate-leads-him dept

CBP Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino made that title literal by showing up wherever Trump needed trouble started. Once he had arrived far north of the southern border he was supposed to be patrolling, Bovino (and the people he was “commanding”) found themselves on the receiving end of several lawsuits.

Not only did they find themselves on the receiving end of lawsuits, they — especially Gregory Bovino — found themselves hit with judgments and orders forbidding them from constantly violating the rights of anti-ICE protesters and journalists covering the protests.

After a couple of murders were committed by CBP officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Trump administration decided Bovino was more trouble than he was worth. Sure, he was loyal and loved to personally engage in violence against protesters, but he also loved to see himself on TV and to dress like he’s auditioning for a Hitler Youth leadership position.

Now that he’s back at the border and bored, Bovino appears to be using his free time to push his own personal brand: a buzzcut bigot willing to spread hatred wherever it’s welcomed. Jeff Tischauser points out on Bluesky that Bovino recently headed overseas to help European bigots push their anti-migrant narratives.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as “cockroaches.‘

RESUM26 is this year’s “Remigration Summit,” which was held in Porto, Portugal on May 30. If you’re not familiar with “Remigration” and/or RESUM26, I’ll let the organization speak for itself, even if it can’t seem to limit itself to 14 words.

Remigration is the umbrella term that designates and encompasses a set of fiscal, cultural, economic, social, political, and logistical policies whose objective is to prevent population replacement through the reversal of migratory flows, thereby restoring the sovereignty, independence, and identity of countries, through the defense of their ethnocultural specificity.

It’s almost twice as long as it needs to be at 25 words, but it’s pretty much saying the same thing Nazi supporters have been saying for years. Oh, and since literal Nazi supporters spoke at this event, here’s another reminder that Bovino himself seems to be on the supply side of Nazi sympathy.

If you can’t see the Bluesky post, It’s a screencap of Bovino’s recent X post where he’s captured giving what looks a hell of a lot like a Nazi salute while in his CBP work uniform. The accompanying text suggests Nazi salutes are just another way federal officers can visibly show their support for ICE and its activities.

Here’s one of the multiple anti-migrant luminaries Bovino joined at RESUM26: Alfonso Goncalves, as summarized by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism:

Gonçalves is a white supremacist and misogynist who fashions himself as an authoritarian leader. He revels in descriptions of himself as “transphobic,” and proudly accepts the characterization that he is “ultranationalist, racist, and xenophobic.” Gonçalves is particularly known for his misogyny, posting bizarre rants about women’s right to vote, casual sex, and women sitting in public. He refers to women as “whores” and “cockroaches.” He has argued that women who get divorced should “not be entitled to receive money/goods” from their husbands and should be mandated to “pay for damages caused to the family.” He says abortions are a “crime against humanity” and has called for women who have the procedure to receive the death penalty. For Gonçalves, “non-traditional families” are an “aberration,” “80% of all divorces are initiated by women” and people of African descent are creating a “population replacement” of people of “native” European descent. He has argued that “African American men are 12x more likely to commit murder than white men.” His bigotry is so extreme that even Elon Musk’s Twitter, known for being lenient towards hateful accounts, permanently suspended both his main and backup accounts, in one instance for “abusive behavior.” 

And that’s just one speaker at this event. Also speaking at RESUM26 were Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek (great replacement theory proponent), Austrian far-right activist Martin Sellner (great replacement theory proponent), former French National Front politician Jean-Yves Gallou (more of the same), and RESUM co-founder Dries Van Langenhover (who adds some Holocaust denialism to the mix).

Greg Bovino has done this while still employed by the US federal government. Under any normal president, his resignation might have been demanded for choosing to associate with people promoting racist theories. But this isn’t a normal presidency. No one in the DHS is going to criticize Bovino. And, while no one seems all that eager to return Bovino to anti-migration front lines, he’s still going to keep being paid by the US public to cheer on racism from the sidelines, when not traveling overseas to do the same thing from the stage.

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