US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#75M9Z)
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."
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