Chris Magnus, the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection finally quit after a very public effort to try keep his job in spite of being asked to leave by his boss Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro N. Mayorkas…..
This seems to be a result of the internal push/pull beween the Border cops’s union and a boss (who happen’s to be gay) that wanted to ‘reform’ the agencies culture..The Boss lost….
The Biden White House sent him on a mission he had no chance of accomplishing….
Republican lawmakers have been after the Homeland boss as part its continual political punches against President Biden…
Immigration is, and has been, a political lightenrod that American lawmakers will NOT seriously deal with…
Donald Trump used the issue to gain political power….
Pointing to wall building as a solution…
It hasn’t stopped anything….
And Trump’s policies that were dehumanising have been abolished for the most part….
In the end?
People from other places will continue to migrate across the planet …
This is true for America…
This is true for Europe….
No-one seems to have a serious solution to something that is actually a normality for mankind…
The White House issued a brief statement on Saturday evening acknowledging that President Biden had accepted the resignation of the commissioner, Chris Magnus, less than a year after appointing him to run one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the world. As commissioner, Mr. Magnus oversaw the United States’ international borders, a role that encompassed border management as well as customs and trade.
The Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, has not publicly explained why he insisted that Mr. Magnus step down so urgently, and there have been no allegations of wrongdoing.
The Biden administration has faced record-breaking illegal border crossings and struggled internally over how to deal with the challenge, which in the lead-up to the midterms was viewed as a political vulnerability with no quick solution…
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It was an abrupt end to a bizarre episode that began Friday morning when Mr. Magnus said he had no plans to resign — a response that senior leaders at the Homeland Security Department had not expected. Mr. Magnus said Mr. Mayorkas had asked him to resign or face being fired on Wednesday, telling him that he had lost confidence in him.
When Mr. Biden appointed Mr. Magnus, a former police chief with a reputation for bringing reform, he was the first openly gay commissioner of the agency. Democrats hoped his decades of experience running police departments and changing longstanding law enforcement cultures would bring what many had considered to be much-needed reform to the U.S. Border Patrol, an agency that is part of C.B.P.
The Border Patrol has long been criticized for its white male-dominated work force and persistent problems with discrimination both inside the agency and in its treatment of migrants…
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