US Customs and Border Protection commissioner asked to resign, source says

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked United States Customs and Border Defense Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign today, according to a source knowledgeable about the conversations.

Magnus has actually been slammed internally for running out touch with the company and openly for the handling of the US-Mexico border.

In a declaration to the Los Angeles Times, Magnus stated he prepared to remain in the company.

” I am delighted about the development I made and look forward continuing that work,” he stated.

CNN has actually connected to the Department of Homeland Security and the White Home for remark.

President Joe Biden tapped Magnus, who acted as authorities chief in Tucson, Arizona, to helm CBP– the biggest federal police and the second-largest revenue-collecting source in the federal government.

Late in 2015, the Senate verified Magnus after months of verification problems that left the company with a space on top in the middle of a record variety of border arrests.

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Magnus can be found in at a time when Custom-mades and Border Defense, which is under the Department of Homeland Security, dealt with an increase of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border and faced travel constraints originating from the coronavirus pandemic.

United States Border Patrol, a department of Custom-mades and Border Defense, made over 2.2 million arrests in 2022 for illegal crossings on the US-Mexico border, the greatest yearly variety of apprehensions on record.