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DonViejo

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Wed Apr 14, 2021, 01:46 PM Apr 2021

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


Chris Magnus is the first police chief to take advantage of marriage equality. He also protested with Black Lives Matter and was a harsh critic of Trump's immigration policies.

By Alex Bollinger Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/04/joe-biden-taps-history-making-gay-police-chief-lead-customs-border-patrol/
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Joe Biden taps history-making gay police chief to lead Customs & Border Patrol (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2021 OP
How many ways will Repubs find to voice opposition to this nomination ... 11 Bravo Apr 2021 #1
This bodes well. crickets Apr 2021 #2

11 Bravo

(23,922 posts)
1. How many ways will Repubs find to voice opposition to this nomination ...
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 01:50 PM
Apr 2021

without even once stating their true objection?

crickets

(25,896 posts)
2. This bodes well.
Wed Apr 14, 2021, 02:13 PM
Apr 2021
“It’s easier to get new people in a department than it is to get a new culture in a department,” Magnus said at the time.


Good article. I like this man. He gets it, and sounds like just the one for the job. NYT linked in above article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/opinion/tucson-police-immigration-jeff-sessions.html

The message from Washington is that cities need to refocus on “law and order.” Yet the harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric and Mr. Sessions’s reckless policies ignore a basic reality known by most good cops and prosecutors: If people are afraid of the police, if they fear they may become separated from their families or harshly interrogated based on their immigration status, they won’t report crimes or come forward as witnesses.

When crime victims and witnesses are unwilling to testify because they’re afraid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent will be waiting to arrest them at the courtroom doors, real criminals go unpunished. It means drug dealers and people who commit domestic and sexual violence are free to exploit a voiceless class of victims; such criminals become a threat to us all. [snip]

Most law enforcement professionals agree that “sanctuary city” designations mean little from a policing standpoint. Almost all local law enforcement agencies, regardless of the “sanctuary” or “immigrant-welcoming” policies adopted by their jurisdictions, cooperate with federal authorities to go after drug cartels, human traffickers and transnational gangs. [snip]

The Justice Department wants Americans to believe that recent upticks in violent crime are tied to undocumented immigrants or cities’ failure to “get tough on crime.” The facts don’t support this narrative. The reality is, cities with fewer crime-fighting resources often experience increases in crime. Crime also may increase in places where crime victims and witnesses are fearful of working with law enforcement. [more]
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