Chris Magnus’s Opus: A Record-Setting Disaster for the Head of Border Protection
Commentary
Chris Magnus was forced to resign as head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Nov. 12. He was unprepared for the job, never had the support of the workforce, and cared more about internal “social justice” than executing CBP’s mission.
Not surprisingly, he utterly failed to secure the U.S. border in his tenure of almost a year.
Magnus ignored the advice of experienced professionals and abandoned successful policies that had reduced illegal migration to historic lows. Instead, he allowed his agents to be pulled off the border and aid his boss, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and the “Mayorkas Migration Machine” to process and parole well over a million mostly single illegal alien adults into the United States, despite few of them having any chance of qualifying for asylum….