Fired Trump hardliner unloads on 'swamp creatures' blocking immigration crackdown

A fired Trump administration official and deportation hardliner is turning on his former employers, calling them "swamp creatures."

Former Border Patrol "commander-at-large" Greg Bovino slammed the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security, which oversaw his agency, while speaking with Megyn Kelly, in appearance flagged by The Daily Beast.

Kelly asked about the departure of immigration hardliners like himself and Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks from the Trump administration. Bovino praised Banks as a "fantastic" immigration hardliner, and suggested he was ousted by "snakes" in the Trump administration who pushed stories about him allegedly paying sex workers.

The Trump administration wanted to take a "softer" approach on immigration in the wake of two deaths during immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis in January, and wanted to oust "hardliners" like Banks, who resigned earlier this week, Bovino explained.

"That prostitution thing had been, that had been investigated many years ago, and he was cleared," Bovino said, adding that the story about Banks' prostitution allegations popping up as they're trying oust hardliners, "doesn't happen by chance. There's a lot of snakes, a lot of swamp creatures" still working in the administration and in the Department of Homeland Security.

"Before we go mass deportations, and before we return to hardline immigration, those snakes need to leave," Bovino said. "We're all no longer working for the Department of Homeland Security. We are all mass deportation hardliners....what does that tell you?"

He warned, "Careful, America, still some swamp creatures out there."