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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation\u2019s frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his resignation Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Michael Banks\u2019 decision, announced in a Fox News interview and later confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security, is the latest leadership shake-up of officials implementing President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown and comes as the Republican administration\u00a0appears to be recalibrating\u00a0its approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just time,\u201d Banks was quoted as saying in a report on the Fox News website. \u201cI 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Rodney Scott, thanked Banks for his service \u201cduring one of the most challenging periods for border security.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear who will replace Banks. He led an agency at the forefront of Trump\u2019s high-profile immigration enforcement efforts but kept a lower profile than some other officials such as Gregory Bovino, a now-retired commander who became a public face of the city operations.<\/p>\n

CBP is one of the federal agencies that participated since last year in a series of immigration enforcement operations, carried out primarily in cities governed by Democrats \u2014an effort that triggered a spike in arrests and led to the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis this year at the hands of federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n

Banks\u2019 resignation takes place two months after Markwayne Mullin, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma, became homeland security secretary. DHS oversees CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE.<\/p>\n

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Banks is stepping down\u00a0at the same time that ICE\u00a0is also going through a leadership transition. Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, is leaving later this month and will be replaced by David Venturella, who worked for years for private contractors before returning to government service.<\/p>\n

CBP was established in 2003 and handles customs, immigration, and agricultural regulations to secure U.S. borders.<\/p>\n

Banks returned to the Border Patrol last year after a long agency career that had never landed him in its senior ranks. His star had risen as border czar to Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, during a period when illegal crossings reached record highs and the state launched a multibillion-dollar enforcement surge that led to turf battles with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Banks kept a relatively low public profile as arrests for illegal crossings that have plunged to their lowest levels since the mid-1960s, a trend that began toward the end of that Democratic administration.<\/p>\n

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Banks did not appear publicly at the Border Security Expo this month in Phoenix, an annual conference at which government officials update contractors on the state of the border. Scott, who was Banks\u2019 supervisor, is a close ally of Trump border czar Tom Homan and has acted more as the agency\u2019s public face.<\/p>\n

In the interview with Fox News, Banks said that after 37 years, \u201cit\u2019s time to enjoy the family and life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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