WASHINGTON — The commissioner of Customs Border Protection resigned Saturday after saying he had been pressured to step down by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas amid a record number of migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“The President has accepted the resignation of Christopher Magnus, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Biden appreciates Magnus’s almost 40 years of service and contributions to police reform as police chief in three US cities, she said.
Jean-Pierre earlier in the week declined to comment when Magnus told The Washington Post he had refused Mayorkas’s request to resign a day after the midterm elections, saying the president retained confidence in the CBP leader.
