After declaring he wouldn’t go, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus went, on Saturday. Just after the Tuesday midterms, he had been ordered by his boss, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, to resign or be fired. As late as Friday, Magnus was continuing to resist ouster. But by the next day, he relented and submitted his resignation.
Previously, Magnus had spent a forty-year career as police chief for a series of cities, including Fargo, N.D., Richmond, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz. In his 11 months as CBP’s first openly homosexual head, he had gained a reputation as being more concerned with remaking the agency according to a far-left template than doing his job. He also was noted for falling asleep during meetings. Meanwhile, as Magnus drowsed and dreamed of an anti-racist CBP, nearly 2.4 million illegal migrants crossed into America from Mexico, an untold number of whom were admitted, probably forever.
Officials at the union representing CBP employees, the National Border Patrol Council, tweeted their response to the news: “Good riddance,” they said, adding:
He was so busy chasing imaginary “culture” problems in BP he forgot his primary job. Chasing unicorns only works if you convince people unicorns exist. BP doesn’t have a culture problem. It has a leadership problem, starting with Biden.
That brings up the real and lingering problem: Chris Magnus was a convenient–and much deserving–scapegoat, but the real problems remain solidly in place. You know the names: Mayorkas, Biden, Harris. Any damage the narcoleptic Magnus did pales beside the destruction those three are causing.
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