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Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.

U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino
U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, who has led his agents this year from Los Angeles to Chicago to Charlotte, N.C., to New Orleans, everywhere engaging in aggressive deportation operations involving the use of tear gas and other uses of force. In the late 1980s in North Carolina, he was a polite high school wrestler who won the team’s most-improved award.
Illustration by Bryan Barker | Chicago Sun-Times photos by Chicago Sun-Times photographers Ashlee Rezin, Candace Dane Chambers and Anthony Vazquez and Watauga High School

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Watching the Hollywood movie “The Border" as a boy set the course for Bovino's life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts causing turmoil in Chicago and elsewhere, he sees himself as the good guy. Not everyone agrees.