President-elect Donald Trump has selected Mike Banks, Texas Governor Greg Abbott's special advisor for border matters, to head the U.S. Border Patrol. Banks, a retired Border Patrol agent, has served as Texas' 'border czar' since 2023, overseeing the state's Operation Lone Star initiative to control the southern border.
Mike Banks at a news conference about border security at the Texas Department of Public Safety regional headquarters in Weslaco on Feb. 21, 2023. President-elect Donald Trump will pick Mike Banks, a special advisor to Gov. Greg Abbott for border matters, to lead the U.S. Border Patrol, according to the New York Post.
The press offices for the Trump administration’s transition team and Abbott’s office did not immediately respond Thursday to requests for comment. As part of the mission, Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard soldiers have been deployed to the border, where they have installed miles of concertina wire and a floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass while also arresting thousands of migrants on criminal trespassing charges.
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