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WASHINGTON (Reuters) â Some U.S. border patrol agents are so frustrated with President Joe Bidenâs more liberal border policies that they are considering early retirement, while other disgruntled colleagues are buying unofficial coins that say âU.S. Welcome Patrol.â
Interviews with a dozen current and former agents highlight growing dissatisfaction among some rank and file members of the agency over Bidenâs swift reversal of some of former President Donald Trumpâs hardline immigration policies. Since Biden took office, border apprehensions have risen sharply.
Some of that frustration is coalescing into opposition to Bidenâs pick to lead the border patrolâs parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The nominee is Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus, who still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
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The Biden administration is pushing out the most senior career official at the country’s largest law enforcement agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to two people with firsthand knowledge.
Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security chose not to keep CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez on as the second in command of the federal agency. Perez was promoted to his position at CBP headquarters in Washington in July 2018 and oversaw operations of trade, travel, immigration, and national security at land, air, and sea borders.
Biden officials attempted to demote Perez, a 29-year federal law enforcement officer, by transferring him to an office in Tucson, Arizona. Perez now plans to retire, the people said.
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The Tucson, Arizona, City Council unanimously approved up to $30 million in raises for city employees, including a historic pay increase for the city’s police department, officials said.
City council members’ Tuesday vote granted Tucson Police Department the largest raise TPD employees have ever seen, the Tucson Police Officers Association (TPOA) said Wednesday in announcing and applauding the news. Our pay scale has surpassed all the Southern Arizona departments and is now on par with the top Phoenix Valley agencies. The compensation plan helps triage attrition and communicates value for the job you perform, the TPOA wrote. It should be noted that for the first time CSO s were included in these compensation talks.
Ms. Ahuja, who was chief of staff for OPM during the Obama administration, has praised civil unrest in U.S. cities as a means “of finally coming to terms with our racist history as a country.”
She also led Philanthropy Northwest while it promoted the racism-retribution agenda of academics such Ibram X. Kendi, who created an educational precept known as critical race theory that holds that White people are inherently racist and retain economic and political power by oppressing people of color.
Last June, Ms. Ahuja wrote about creating an “anti-racist future” and the “daily trials of White supremacy.”
“How will we work to not only acknowledge the life and the future of the Black community, the Indigenous community, Black immigrants, Black queer and trans people, Black women; but also to affirm it so that they are free from the daily trials of White supremacy?” she wrote.
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