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President Joe Biden will nominate Tucson, Ariz. police chief Chris Magnus as director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday, according to new reports.
A White House official told reporters on Monday morning of the upcoming nomination, which was made due to Magnus’ immigration work in a city close to the southern U.S. border, and his efforts on police reform, The New York Times reported.
The official said Biden will also nominate Ur Mendoza Jaddou as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Jen Easterly as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jon Meyer as general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, Rob Silvers as undersecretary for strategy, policy and plans for the Department of Homeland Security, and John Tien as deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security.
Magnus was noticed across the nation when a photo of him holding a Black Lives Matter sign went viral.
Magnus also publicly criticized former President Donald Trump in a 2017 New York Times op-ed in which he expressed he was “deeply troubled” by Trump’s immigration policies, and accused Trump and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions of “anti-immigrant rhetoric.”
“The Trump administration seems to think it knows more about fighting crime than local police chiefs and sheriffs, and it is punishing cities that keep their officers focused on community needs rather than federal immigration enforcement,” Magnus wrote in the op-ed.
On Jan. 15, Magnus shared a Washington Post article that criticized Trump’s “’zero-tolerance’ border policy” and quoted a portion of the article that said, “The report ‘sheds new light on the chaos, cruelty and reckless disregard for vulnerable children in our nation’s custody’ and shows (the intention to) harm children and families as a deterrent to migration, and did not care to plan for the consequences.”
After the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Magnus appeared to blame Trump, saying the “mob” was “encouraged & emboldened,” mirroring language used by Democrat lawmakers during the second impeachment trial of Trump in February.
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