Border Patrol Chief Reinstated After His Ouster Sparked Retaliation Claims

Reinstatement comes more than a month after Republican lawmakers raised the prospect that he was the target of political retaliation.

Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants near the border wall, after they entered the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, border with El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 3, 2022. Herika Martinez/AFP via Getty Images

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been reinstated to his post as the chief of the El Centro, California border sector more than a month after Republican lawmakers raised the prospect that he was the target of political retaliation.

On Monday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) announced that Gregory Bovino was allowed to return to his post as the chief patrol agent for the El Centro Sector.