Gregory Bovino, a senior U.S. Border Patrol official who emerged as a face of the federal government’s immigration dragnet and led the agency’s monthlong sweep through south Louisiana, faced questions in a 2019 discrimination lawsuit filed in New Orleans about an email in which a subordinate compared him to a Confederate Army general.
Bovino’s response: The message, which he received a few months before assuming leadership of Border Patrol’s New Orleans sector, had nothing to do with race.
Christopher Bullock, a friend and colleague from Bovino’s tenure in the El Centro, California Border Patrol sector, sent the note in May 2018. The messages surfaced in the discrimination lawsuit filed the following year in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and Bovino was questioned about them in a 2020 deposition…