Chris Magnus’ Opus: A Report-Setting Catastrophe for the Head of Border Safety

Chris Magnus was compelled to resign as head of U.S. Customs and Border Safety on Nov. 12. He was unprepared for the job, by no means had the assist of the workforce, and cared extra about inner “social justice” than executing CBP’s mission. Not surprisingly, he completely didn’t safe the U.S. border in his tenure of just about a 12 months.

Magnus ignored the recommendation of skilled professionals and deserted profitable insurance policies that had decreased unlawful migration to historic lows. As an alternative, he allowed his brokers to be pulled off the border and help his boss, Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas, and the “Mayorkas Migration Machine” to course of and parole properly over 1,000,000 principally single unlawful alien adults into america, regardless of few of them having any likelihood of qualifying for asylum.

There have been round 400,000 encounters with illegally crossing aliens on the border in fiscal 12 months 2020. In fiscal 12 months 2021, encounters rose to almost 1.66 million. And in fiscal 12 months 2022, when Magnus took over within the remaining 10 months of the 12 months, it was over 2.3 million—the most important yearly quantity in U.S. historical past.

Half or extra of those unlawful aliens, plus over 1,000,000 unrecorded “gotaway” arrivals, plus others encountered at official ports of entry, are actually residing within the U.S., including to insurmountable and rising administrative and courtroom backlogs.

In the meantime, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hobbled by Mayorkas’ steerage to not deport unlawful aliens, managed to expel solely 59,000 in all of fiscal 12 months 2021. That’s only a quarter of  the unlawful immigrants that arrived this October alone, so, it’s not precisely maintaining with the movement.

How did Magnus final even 11 months in his job?

First, he was doing President Joe Biden and Mayorkas’ bidding. Incompetence in enforcement is a characteristic, not a bug, of their unstated immigration coverage.

Elected to be a protected centrist, Biden has as a substitute been led by the nostril on coverage points by the far Left of his social gathering. On immigration, advocates of mass amnesties and open borders are operating the present. The outcomes have been precisely what they need: limitless inflows of unlawful aliens from everywhere in the world underneath the pretense that they’re all in search of asylum for political causes, mixed with no plan and 0 intent to take away even those that, after due course of, are dominated ineligible to stay within the U.S.

Second, Magnus is an instance of the Peter Precept and its Pierre Corollary. Lawrence J. Peter’s “Peter Precept” proposed that folks rise to the extent of their incompetence—they get promoted into growing positions of duty that require better and better expertise till they’re promoted past their skills and might’t do their jobs. For instance, a police chief like Magnus may deal with a mid-size city like Richmond, California, or Tucson, Arizona, however will fail when promoted to handle a federal company with over 60,000 workers charged with defending the nation’s borders.

The Pierre Corollary, named after White Home spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, states that the extra ticks you have got in your intersectional bingo card, the extra reluctant a woke employer shall be to fireside you. As an immigrant, lesbian girl of shade, KJP has an impermeable four-point go well with of armor towards requires her substitute by a spokesperson that might reply routine press questions with out studying from a binder prefer it’s the Gospel.

Poor Magnus has solely two ticks in his favor: He’ll often be “the primary overtly homosexual” [insert his next job title here] and he’s a social justice warrior. That purchased him a while on this newest job, however in the long run, it wasn’t sufficient to save lots of him from the axe.

If he wasn’t implementing the regulation, what was Magnus doing? Apparently, his focus was on enhancing the inner tradition of CBP and particularly the Border Patrol.

For instance, to placate advocates for unlawful migrants, Magnus reorganized the Border Patrol’s inner investigation items. You see, crucial factor for border regulation enforcement is to be delicate to their unlawful alien, drug smuggler, and international felony prospects, even when they aren’t allowed to detain or deport any.

Magnus was reputed to nod off in conferences, which he blamed on his a number of sclerosis, not on boredom with the small print of attempting to implement border and immigration legal guidelines. That is likely to be true, however as with Sen.-elect John Fetterman, if there comes a degree the place poor well being renders somebody apparently incapable of doing an assigned job, it’s not “ableist” to level that out.

As an alternative of giving trendy “unconscious bias” coaching to CBP employees and failing to defend Border Patrol brokers from false accusations of whipping Haitian unlawful aliens, Magnus might as a substitute have advocated for them with Mayorkas and the White Home. He might have labored with Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, and different international locations to stem the movement of unlawful migrants and set up protected refugee adjudication amenities exterior our borders.

A overview of Magnus’ tweets over a number of years exhibits that social activism was extra essential to him than regulation enforcement. In July 2020, when federal brokers had been referred to as to guard the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, Magnus referred to as it “an affront to constitutional, skilled regulation enforcement.”

As a police chief, he persistently hyped the alleged mistreatment of detained migrants, downplayed the numbers coming in illegally, and expressed assist for amnesties. When Magnus was police chief in Tucson, he positioned the consolation of unlawful alien residents forward of federal enforcement of immigration legal guidelines. The native Nationwide Border Patrol Council chapter referred to as him “an ultra-liberal social engineer” and had no confidence in his capacity to regulate crime or implement legal guidelines.

Briefly, Magnus was the sort of woke police chief that, mixed with rogue prosecutors, no money bail, and different progressive insurance policies, has introduced a contemporary wave of excessive crime to residents of main cities like New York and Philadelphia.

All in all, Magnus’ resumé confirmed no signal of him being an apparent match for promotion to oversee the nation’s front-line protection towards terrorists, fentanyl, and plain previous unlawful immigrants.

He was reportedly sidelined by the Biden administration in interagency conferences on immigration with the White Home and different Division of Homeland Safety elements. It could be charitable to suppose this was on the grounds of incompetence, however maybe he was simply unable to promote the lie that “the border is secure” as easily as Mayorkas.

One factor America ought to depend on: Any substitute Biden chooses will hardly be any extra inclined than Magnus was to guard the border and implement the regulation.

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