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Chris Inglis will be appointed national cyber director; Jen Easterly to CISA.

President Biden will nominate Tucson's chief of police Chris Magnus to lead Customs and Border Protection, according to the White House.

Absent from his list of DHS appointments is a director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Chris Magnus, right, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., speaking as Mayor Regina Romero listens during a press conference in Tucson, Ariz., in June.Credit...Josh Galemore/Arizona Daily Star, via Associated Press President Biden will nominate Chris Magnus, the police chief of Tucson, Ariz., and a critic of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies, to lead Customs and Border Protection, one of six new installments of leadership at the Department of Homeland Security. If confirmed, M...

Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, has been chosen to lead a key border agency. Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus speaks during a press conference last June. (Josh Galemore/Arizona Daily Star via AP) WASHINGTON (CN) — President Joe Biden on Monday nominated the chief of police for Arizona’s second largest city to lead a key Department of Homeland Security division. The White House announced that the president will nomin...

If confirmed, Chris Magnus would step into a major challenge facing the Biden administration: how to handle a record number of border crossings that are projected to increase in the coming months.

White House Names National Cyber Director, CISA Chief FrankRamspott/iStock.com email The administration also announced nominees for other Homeland Security Department leaders.  Lawmakers of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where both nominees delivered input, praised their selection Monday.    Inglis, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was also a member of the public-private commission and helped shape the position he’ll now fill, if confirmed...

Four months after his inauguration, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has named two former National Security Agency (NSA) officials to top cybersecurity roles in his administration. On Monday, the White House announced the nomination of former NSA deputy director John C. "Chris" Inglis as the government’s first national cyber director. Ex-deputy director of the NSA’s counterterrorism center, Jen Easterly, was named to head up the Department of Homeland Securitys Cybersecurity...

The split with the GOP could widen, with unpredictable results.

Biden taps Tucson police chief to lead CBP POLITICO 1 day ago By Quint Forgey and Anita Kumar © Ben Margot/AP Photo President Joe Biden on Monday announced his intent to nominate Chris Magnus as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. President Joe Biden on Monday announced his intent to nominate Chris Magnus as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection — tapping a police chief from Tuscon, Ariz., to oversee the mammoth Department of Homeland Security...