President Joe Biden has accepted the resignation of Christopher Magnus, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The resignation comes as the number of illegal crossings rose to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year.
PUBLISHED 12:54 PM ET Nov. 11, 2022of Christopher Magnus, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the White House announced on Saturday.
It is part of a larger shakeup expected at Homeland Security as officials struggle to manage migrants coming from a wider range of countries, including Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua Migrants were stopped 2.38 million times in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 37% from the year before. The annual total surpassed 2 million for the first time in August and is more than twice the highest level during Donald Trump’s presidency, in 2019.
“There have always been periods of migrant surges into this country for different reasons, at different times,” Magnus told The Associated Press last year. “But I don’t think anybody disputes that the numbers are high right now and that we have to work as many different strategies as possible to deal with those high numbers.”
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