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Leaked docs reveal agency restructured around Trump official’s 'smash-and-grab tactics'

Leaked memos reveal Border Patrol's nationwide adoption of 'smash-and-grab' tactics, reversing 2022 safety rules and leading to deadly incidents and legal challenges, watchdogs say.

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By late 2025, former Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino had become well known for his unapologetic embrace of aggressive and at times even deadly approaches to mass deportation. Now new reporting based on leaked documents indicates that his “smash-and-grab tactics” have been implemented as the norm throughout the Department of Homeland Security.After the fallout from Trump’s disastrous surge of DHS agents in Minnesota, which left two d…

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The New Republic broke the news in on Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
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