"Recently demoted border patrol official Gregory Bovino, who served as the face of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in several US cities, was compared to a Confederate general in an email sent to him by a colleague in 2018, according to multiple reports. A border patrol agent who was later promoted to a senior role in New Orleans sent the email in question as well as a number of Confederacy-related images after Bovino canceled a job listing and installed that same agent a white officer in the listed role by bypassing the agency's standard career-advancement process."
"Bovino reportedly replied, Oh jeez, DELETE!!!!! but did not rebuke Bullock for sending the email. Below, two other pictures were attached. The first showed civil war re-enactors dressed in Confederate uniforms assembled around a Confederate flag with the caption NLL all hands meeting, referring to the border patrol's New Orleans sector, which stretches from Louisiana's best-known city to the Florida panhandle."
Gregory Bovino, a demoted Border Patrol official who served as the face of a Trump-era immigration crackdown, was compared to a Confederate general in a 2018 email that included Confederacy-related images. Bovino canceled a job listing and installed a white officer in the listed role by bypassing the agency's standard career-advancement process. Two border patrol agents filed discrimination lawsuits alleging efforts to manipulate the CBP hiring process to obstruct promotion of qualified Black and Latino applicants. An email exchange included a picture of Confederate Gen William Mahone labeled Chief Bovino; Bovino replied "Oh jeez, DELETE!!!!!" without rebuking the sender. The sender, Christopher Bullock, later acknowledged the email was inappropriate and could reasonably be viewed as racist.
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