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US Senate Confirms Biden Border Agency Chief Amid Immigration Crisis
US Senate Confirms Biden Border Agency Chief Amid Immigration Crisis
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US Senate Confirms Biden Border Agency Chief Amid Immigration Crisis
2021-12-08T02:32+0000
2021-12-08T02:32+0000
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The confirmation comes as the US is seeing record numbers of migrants apprehended at the border. There were more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the southern border in the 2021 fiscal year. That figure is more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record.Magnus, former police chief of Arizona's Tucson, takes over at a time when the Biden administration is under intense pressure from immigration activists and critics on one hand and Republicans on the other.Activists are demanding that Biden reverse Trump-era policies like Title 42 and dismantle the inhumane parts of the immigration system.
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biden's nomination to head cbp, chris magnus, migration crisis in the us
biden's nomination to head cbp, chris magnus, migration crisis in the us
US Senate Confirms Biden Border Agency Chief Amid Immigration Crisis
02:32 GMT 08.12.2021 (Updated: 16:33 GMT 08.12.2022) WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Senate by a slim margin confirmed President Joe Biden's nomination to head the country's border security agency.
The confirmation comes as the US is seeing record numbers of migrants apprehended at the border. There were more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the southern border in the 2021 fiscal year. That figure is more than quadruple the number of the prior fiscal year and the highest annual total on record.
"By a vote of 50-47, the #Senate confirmed Chris Magnus to be Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection," the Senate Press Gallery tweeted Tuesday.
Magnus, former police chief of Arizona's Tucson, takes over at a time when the Biden administration is under
intense pressure from immigration activists and critics on one hand and Republicans on the other.
Activists are demanding that Biden reverse Trump-era policies like Title 42 and dismantle the inhumane parts of the immigration system.
