BREAKING: Top U.S. border official Chris Magnus was asked to resign amid frustrations over his leadership, a source said.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign this week following months of frustration with his leadership, a senior Department of Homeland Security official familiar with the matter tells CBS News.
Troy Miller, a longtime career official at CBP, has been overseeing day-to-day operations at the agency for some time amid the internal concerns over Magnus' leadership, the official added. Magnus said he defended his record when asked to resign by Mayorkas and his deputy, John Tien:"I expressed to him that I felt there was no justification for me to resign when I still cared deeply about the work I was doing and felt that that work was focused on the things I was hired to do in the first place."
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