Recently retired U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino said Western governments should coordinate intelligence, law enforcement and financial investigations to identify, disrupt and prosecute Antifa networks.
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Recently retired U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino called for a coordinated international campaign against Antifa during remarks connected to his visit to Portugal for the 2026 Remigration Summit, saying the United States and European governments should combine intelligence, law enforcement and financial pressure to dismantle militant networks.
Bovino was asked how he would address Antifa after the Trump administration designated the movement as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025, according to the information provided.
“Stopping Antifa once and for all — it’s that whole-of-government approach,” Bovino stated.
Bovino said governments should seek to identify the people involved, determine how they operate, track their funding and pursue criminal cases where warranted.
“It’s what we can do with our intelligence agencies and our law enforcement in the United States, and then sharing information with our European partners to tackle these networks, to get into these networks, to understand who is behind the networks, what their tactics are, how they are being funded, and then prosecute them from there,” Bovino said in remarks shared in an X post.
Bovino also tied his comments to immigration enforcement concerns in both Europe and the United States, saying he sees similar challenges on both sides of the Atlantic.
“If there’s one thing that draws me to Europe that makes me feel for those individuals, it’s this immigration problem that’s the same there as it is in the United States. Those are our brothers and sisters over in Europe that are dying, being raped, killed, and maimed by people that should not be in their countries,” Bovino said.
He said the response should not be limited to one country and argued that Western governments should confront illegal immigration and related activist networks at the same time.
“I think this is a problem we should address simultaneously, both across the Pond and here. When it’s addressed simultaneously and there’s a sort of worldwide effort, that’s a strong form of resistance to the anarchists, leftists, and communists that want millions of illegal aliens to destroy our culture so they can turn it into whatever nightmare ‘utopia’ they’re looking to turn it into,” Bovino said.
Bovino’s remarks came as he expressed support for European immigration activists and argued that Antifa and open-borders organizations have helped defend policies driving mass migration. His proposed response centered on intelligence sharing, law enforcement coordination, scrutiny of funding sources and prosecutions of individuals involved in unlawful activity.