US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad
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 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-militarized-zone-california-southern-us-border">militarization of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.
“It’s just time,” Banks https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-border-patrol-chief-mike-banks-abruptly-resigns-fox-news-learns">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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