FILE PHOTO: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner John Sanders attends a Police Week event in Washington, U.S. May 16, 2019. Donna Burton/CBP/Handout via REUTERS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The acting commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, John Sanders, is resigning and will leave his post on July 5, the agency said on Tuesday, a move that coincides with an outcry over the treatment of detained migrant children.
The relocation of 250 migrant children https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children/u-s-relocates-hundreds-of-migrant-children-from-overcrowded-border-station-idUSKCN1TQ062 from an overcrowded Texas border patrol station, where they were held for weeks in squalid conditions without adequate food and water, has stepped up criticism from immigration activists and Democrats of Republican President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies.
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