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'It's just time': Trump's Border Patrol chief resigns amid sex worker allegations
https://www.rawstory.com/cbp-chief-mike-banks-resigns/'It's just time': Trump's Border Patrol chief resigns amid sex worker allegations
David Edwards
May 14, 2026 12:29PM ET
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks announced his resignation Wednesday, effective immediately, in an exclusive interview with Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin — offering a rosy self-assessment that critics say glosses conveniently over a deeply troubled chapter in the agency's recent history.
"It's just time," Banks told Melugin. "I feel like I got the ship back on course. From the least secure, disastrous, chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen. Time to pass the reins, 37 years is time to enjoy the family and life."
Last month, Banks had been accused of regularly soliciting sex workers.
Banks 'bragged' to colleagues while in his previous management role at Border Patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand over the course of a decade," a Washington Examiner report said at the time.
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