For Star subscribers: Former Tucson police chief Chris Magnus says he resigned as Customs and Border Protection head because he wasn’t aligned with DHS' leadership.
Danyelle Khmara Former Tucson police chief Chris Magnus says he resigned as head of Customs and Border Protection because he wasn’t aligned with its leadership, but he hopes the agency will continue the progress he was making.
People are also reading… Magnus resigned Saturday, Nov. 12, after his boss, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, told him to do so a day earlier, as first reported by the Los Angeles Times. Before becoming Tucson police chief in 2016, Magnus was chief in Richmond, California, and in Fargo, North Dakota.
As head of CBP, Magnus was vocal about issues such as Title 42, a public health policy that allows the government to immediately expel migrants from the country, saying it “comes at a heavy cost to many asylum seekers,” the L.A. Times reported. He also tried to change the culture of Customs and Border Protection and clamped down on social media activity.
Border Patrol Union President Brandon Judd said Magnus butted heads with people across many agencies under the Customs and Border Protection umbrella. Some of the issues Magnus had identified as priorities in CBP included: expanding mental-health resources and suicide prevention for officers and agents, improving the agency’s social media policy, increasing public access to data and policies, retaining and increasing the number of women in Border Patrol and throughout the agency, and updating Border Patrol’s pursuit policy.
Magnus also committed to eliminating Critical Incident Teams, Border Patrol teams that investigated fellow agents in extreme use-of-force cases and were considered controversial by many because of conflict-of-interest concerns. Those investigations will now be handled by a third party.
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