U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus was criticized by current Biden administration officials in new Politico report for allegedly being 'disengaged' in the job.
Chris Magnus appears before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing to consider his nomination to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on October 19, 2021, in Washington, DC.visited the border earlier this year and afterward requested an emergency meeting with Mayorkas and other senior DHS officials to relay complaints about ICE that he gathered from Border Patrol’s rank-and-file, one of the five administration officials told Politico.
Six internal critics of Magnus said"they had seen Magnus fall asleep during multiple meetings, including one earlier this year on how to handle theMagnus, narrowly approved by the Senate in December, told Politico that"he experienced brief periods of tiredness as a side effect of his multiple sclerosis, the neurological condition he was diagnosed with 15 years ago; and that he adjusted medication levels to deal with those side effects.
In a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, Magnus responded to the allegations and defended his approach.
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