Chuck U Schumer may not be the dullest person in Congress, but he is certainly in the top two, a distant second to AOC.
Schumer complained about the condition of the detention centers and called on Mark Morgan to resign or be fired over that. One small problem though. Morgan is not yet the chief of the Customs and Border Protection or even the U.S. Border Patrol. He has had nothing to do with the detention centers at all. I guess Chuckie didn’t get the memo. Mark Morgan was part of the Obama administration.
He can’t resign until he actually gets the job.
“Schumer Calls For Acting CBP Commissioner Morgan And Other Top Leadership At Agency To Be Fired And For New, Untainted Team To Be Brought In To Begin Reining In Toxic Culture At Border Patrol Agency,” read a headline from a Schumer press release sent Wednesday.
However, Morgan is not the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, nor is he leading the U.S. Border Patrol. Morgan is still the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency he has been in charge of since May.
The apparent confusion may stem from announcements in June that CBP Acting Commissioner John Sanders was resigning and Morgan would be leaving ICE to take his place. However, the leadership transition has not officially taken place. An ICE spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that Morgan is still leading their agency and would not officially take over the reins of CBP until Sunday.
“Internal investigations aren’t enough because the leadership at CBP, particularly Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan, are too callous about the way in which children and their families are treated, which is why we need untainted professionals to be brought in from outside the CBP structure immediately,” Schumer said in a statement, misstating Morgan’s official government position.