Andrew Sage

NBC is reporting that the White House has approved the reassignment of at least a dozen directors of ICE field offices, with sources telling Fox News that the cities will include Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Philadelphia, El Paso, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, and New Orleans.

This is almost half of the ICE field offices in the country.

This turnover is being orchestrated by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and DHS Senior Advisor Corey Lewandowski, with some of the replacements being hand-picked by Bovino.

This is like Bovino being able to shape ICE how he sees fit using his Border Patrol background.

Mm-hmm.

And these changes are reportedly motivated on differing views on tactics across agency leadership with the ICE strategy and the Tom Homan strategy of focusing on targeted removal of known criminals or immigrants with pre-existing deportation orders versus the Border Patrol tactic of doing these large sweeps and roundups around places like

Home depots, laundromats, restaurants, neighborhoods, urban centers.

So Bovino has been on this for a minute, right?

I'm now realizing we need to cover his career in more depth.

But I've seen this, oh, where did Bovino come from stuff?

In 2010, when he was out at the Blythe Border Patrol Station, I believe, Blythe's...

California for those not familiar.

Bovino was part of a raid on bus and train stations in Las Vegas, right?

Like these broader kind of dragnets have been something that he seems to have, they've been a characteristic of his career, right?

So that would make sense for him to be the guy advocating for this now.

The official statement made by DHS Assistant Secretary Trisha McLaughlin at this point says, quote, while we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump administration remains laser focused on delivering results, removing violent, criminal, illegal aliens from this country.

She followed up this statement with a tweet naming a whole bunch of people involved in all of these news stories, including Bovino and like praising them for their patriotism.

Let's take a look at two pictures of Bovino here for his courtroom attire.

Who wants to describe what Bovino is wearing here?

It looks like a statue of Stalin.