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US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials
Mike Banks, who led Trump’s border crackdown, resigned weeks after reports of prostitution allegations
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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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Joseph Gedeon in Washington · Thu, May 14, 2026, 10:41 AM
US news | The Guardian
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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