{"id":1237,"date":"2026-05-14T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:55:46","slug":"us-border-patrol-chief-resigns-abruptly-amid-string-of-exits-by-trump-immigration-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"US border patrol chief resigns abruptly amid string of exits by Trump immigration officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Banks, who led Trump\u2019s border crackdown, resigned weeks after reports of prostitution allegations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who oversaw the most aggressive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/11\/trump-militarized-zone-california-southern-us-border\">militarization<\/a> of the US southern border in recent history, has resigned with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just time,\u201d Banks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-border-patrol-chief-mike-banks-abruptly-resigns-fox-news-learns\">told Fox News<\/a> in an interview. \u201cI feel like I got the ship back on course from the least secure, most disastrous, most chaotic border to the most secure border this country has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/us-border-patrol-chief-resigns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Banks, who led Trump\u2019s border crackdown, resigned weeks after reports of prostitution allegations Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Mike Banks, the border patrol chief who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1237\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}