Gregory Bovino, the self-styled former “commander-at-large” of the U.S. Border Patrol, was interviewed by The New York Times ahead of his retirement from the federal service — and seems pretty bitter about his downfall.

In January, Bovino was removed from his position after federal agents killed American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, and went back to his previous role as a sector chief in California.

In the interview, Bovino seemed disappointed with the “softer touch” Trump has advocated since his departure. On his regrets, he told the newspaper, “I wish I’d caught even more illegal aliens.”

“I mean, we went as hard as we could, but there’s always a creative and innovative solution to catching even more,” he added.

As The Times noted, Bovino wasn’t particularly concerned that he had overstepped with his tactics. Instead, he suggested that he hadn’t gone far enough.

“We wanted total border domination,” Bovino said. “I want you to dominate that border. I’m not going to ‘control’ it. We’re going to dominate the hell out of that damn place.”

Notably, he did not regret making the baseless claim that Pretti had wanted to “massacre law enforcement.”

Bovino jabbed at Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, over allegations he had received a $50,000 bribe.

″You’re not going to see me talking to anyone for a bag of money,” Bovino said.

Bovino also admitted to having “spirited” conversations with Stephen Miller, the White House adviser who has significant influence over Trump’s immigration agenda. Without naming names, Bovino criticized his superiors as “status quo” bureaucrats who had rejected his “turn and burn” tactics of quickfire immigration arrests.

The former Border Patrol boss is retiring this week in the wake of massive blowback about his brutal enforcement tactics in places like Minneapolis and Los Angeles.

As one DHS official told The Times, some agents formally complained and accused Bovino of directing them to practice racial profiling and use munitions indiscriminately against nonviolent targets. Bovino claimed he didn’t know of any formal complaints.

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