#shorts Biden border chief accused of falling asleep during meetings on migrant crisis, ‘disengaged’ with job. On 10/17/2022, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “My colleague is reporting today that five current administration officials who worked with the CBP Commissioner have described him as unengaged in his job and seen him fall asleep during multiple meetings. Does the White House have a comment to that?”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Are you talking about Commissioner Magnus?

Q Yeah.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, under Secretary Mayorkas’s leadership, we’re — we’re securing the border … rebuilding the immigration system that the prior administration just gutted, decimated. And Commissioner Magnus plays a key role on all of this. That’s how we view his role.

Politico reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus demonstrates that he is “unengaged in his job” and “often doesn’t attend White House meetings on the situation on the border, badmouths other agencies to colleagues and superiors, and has not built relationships within CBP and across other agencies to address the influx of migrants at the border.” “He’s not in the game,” another administration official told Politico of Magnus. “Every time there’s a meeting and he’s in it, we’ll get to a conclusion and Magnus will have some sidebar issue that he wants to raise.” Six internal critics of Magnus said “they had seen Magnus fall asleep during multiple meetings, including one earlier this year on how to handle the current swell of Venezuelans crossing the border,” according to Politico’s report.