US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks resigns

US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks resigns12 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleMax MatzaGetty ImagesThe chief of US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has announced that he is resigning, telling Fox News that his departure is effective immediately.Michael Banks had been in the role since US President Donald Trump's return to the White House last year. His departure is the latest shakeup for the Trump administration's immigration policy team, after the president fired his secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem earlier this year, and outspoken CBP commander Greg Bovino quit before that."It's just time," Banks told Fox News on Thursday. "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," he said.In a letter to staff on Thursday, Banks wrote: "It is time for me to retire and return home to Texas to focus on my family and ranch.""What we have accomplished together in the last year and a half is nothing short of amazing," Banks wrote in the note seen by CBS News, the BBC's US partner."You, the men and women of the Border Patrol, took the United States Border from the most chaotic and unsecured border in the history of this great Nation and have delivered the most secure border this country has ever seen."CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, who oversaw Banks in his chief role, issued a statement thanking him "for his decades of service to this country".His statement also noted that Banks came out of retirement to work for Trump, and congratulated him "on his second retirement after returning to serve during one of the most challenging periods for border security"."During his time as Chief, the border was transformed from chaos to the most secure border ever recorded. We wish him and his family well."Though the job had previously been held mostly by officials who had worked...