Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino will retire from Border Patrol at the end of the month after nearly 30 years.

Bovino told Breitbart on Sunday that he would be leaving the agency, adding, “The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside Border Patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced.”

“Watching these agents out there giving it their all in some of the most dangerous of environments we have ever faced was humbling,” he said.

Under President Trump, Bovino led Border Patrol agents on deployments that included sweeping raids in the U.S. Bovino's approach to conducting and directing operations in large metropolitan areas was a significant change from the traditional roles of Border Patrol.

Bovino's role as Border Patrol commander at large was terminated in January, and he was pulled out of Minneapolis after federal agents killed two anti-ICE activists, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Border czar Tom Homan replaced Bovino as head of the Minneapolis operation in January. Bovino then returned to his previous role as chief of the Border Patrol's El Centro Sector in Southern California.

Bovino joined Border Patrol in El Centro in 1996. He also served on foreign assignments in Egypt, Africa, and Honduras.