Joe Biden taps history-making gay police chief to lead Customs & Border Patrol

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President Joe Biden has nominated the police chief who is believed to be the first gay police chief to get married in the U.S. to lead Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Tuscon, Arizona Police Chief Chris Magnus made national headlines for his support for the Black Lives Matter movement and for his criticisms of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Biden choice of Magnus to be the next Commissioner of CBP signals his intent on changing the culture of the sprawling agency charged with enforcing trade, customs, and immigration laws.

Magnus was police chief in Richmond, California from 2006 to 2015. During his tenure, he was credited with hiring more women and minorities, increasing communication between the police and the community, and increasing police accountability.

By the time he went on to be the police chief of Tuscon, 60 percent of the Richmond Police Department’s active police officers were non-white, and almost all the officers who were there when he started had left.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/joe-biden-taps-history-making-gay-police-chief-lead-customs-border-patrol/