Mike Banks, who led Trump’s border crackdown, resigned weeks after reports of prostitution allegations
Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who oversaw the most aggressive militarization of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.
“It’s just time,” Banks told Fox News in an interview. “I feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure, most disastrous, most chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen.”
Rodney Scott, the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) commissioner, said: “We thank US Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks for his decades of service to this country and congratulate him on his second retirement after returning to serve during one of the most challenging periods for border security.
“During his time as chief, the border was transformed from chaos to the most secure border ever recorded. We wish him and his family well.”
