Mike Banks, President Donald Trump’s top Border Patrol official, resigned from the position on Thursday, “effective immediately.”

Banks’ departure from the Border Patrol comes under the cloud of sex tourism allegations against him.

Several current and former border patrol agents told the Washington Examiner last month that Banks “bragged” about having sex with prostitutes in countries that included Colombia and Thailand.

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    3 months ago

    What is “sex tourism”? I feel like it is a phrase that sugar coats what he actually did.

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      3 months ago

      Going places to have sex with the people there. Not necessarily to abuse children, but in this administration it’s a fair assumption