El Centro

[el sen-troh]

noun

1. a city in S California.

Example Sentences

Most of that training happens at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms or north of El Centro at the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, according to a retired senior Marine officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

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As sector chief in El Centro, which covers roughly the eastern half of California, he released highly produced promotional videos that portrayed Border Patrol agents in action-style movies, often set to heavy metal music.

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His most vivid memory was the time a guard in El Centro gave him extra food because he thought my dad was a bit too skinny.

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Michele Beckwith, a career prosecutor who was made the acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of California earlier this year, told the New York Times that she was let go after she warned Gregory Bovino, chief of the Border Patrol’s El Centro Sector, that a court injunction blocked him from carrying out indiscriminate immigration raids in Sacramento.

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The judge ordered the Border Patrol, led by El Centro Sector Chief Gregory Bovino, to stop the raids in California’s Eastern District, which covers much of the state’s Central Valley, including Sacramento.

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