Washington, United States.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced his choice to occupy six positions in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), inclusive a police chief and an activist who, if confirmed by the Senate, they will stand for major immigration services.
To Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP), Biden chose the chief of the Tucson Police (Arizona), Chris Magnus, very criticism with the immigration measures of the government of Donald Trump.
If endorsed in the post, Magnus would become the commissioner of the agency responsible for the border surveillance out of the country.
If you are confirmed as a CBP commissioner, you must complete the challenge from handle the record numbers from undocumented migrants, among which there are many unaccompanied minors, who have since crossed the border Mexico andn the past few weeks.
According to The New York Times newspaper, there is a photo of it Magnus –which is white – wearing the police uniform and a sign of it Black Lives Matter (Black lives matter) during a protest in Richmond (California) in 2014.
On the other hand, it is not exempt from it controversies, since June last year, he tried to step down – although his resignation was rejected – after the death in April of Hispanic Carlos Ingram López, when I was immobilized by agents On Tucson.
Another prominent figure nominated by Biden is the activist Ur Mendoza Jaddou, from an Iraqi father and a Mexican mother, whose president wants me to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, in English), the agency running the immigration system and the processes of naturalization, according to a White House statement.
Mendoza Jaddou was the director of DHS Watch, a project of the America’s Voice group, which advocates for a immigration Reformation, and has experience in USCIS, where he worked in his legal services.
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In addition, Biden has nominated the Armed Forces Veteran John Ten, as deputy secretary of DHS; to Jen Easterly, as Director of the Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security; to Jonathan Meyer, as a legal assistant at DHS and Robert Silvers as assistant secretary for Strategy, policy and planningof the.
In a statement, the DHS secretary stated, Alejandro Mayorkas, underscored “the deep experience” of these professionals in their field.
“Together they will help progress in the Department of Homeland Security’s mission to promote equality and safety from American people“he indicated. EFE