Image: The US border patrol chief, Mike Banks, at a roundtable discussion with local ranchers and other employees on 7 January 2026 in Brownsville, Texas. Photograph: Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images

Joseph Gedeon of The Guardian reports: “Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who oversaw the most aggressive militarization of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.

…The resignation comes weeks after the Washington Examiner reported that six current and former border patrol employees had accused Banks of regularly paying for sex with prostitutes during trips to Colombia and Thailand over more than a decade, and bragging about it to colleagues…”

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