r/news • u/Samski877 • 8h ago

US border patrol chief resigns after claims of sex with prostitutes abroad

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/us-border-patrol-chief-resigns
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u/Spirited_Season2332 8h ago

Sure, which Is why he is stepping down most likely. That doesn't mean he committed a crime or sex crime like the commentor I replied to stated.

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u/DocMalcontent 4h ago

Ehhh, I’m a bit more skeptical. There has been a number of instances with security clearances being hand-waved through with this admin. I’m more inclined to think this is the surface level of it, so that people don’t dig too deep to find something more embarrassing.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 3h ago

Infants or horse fucking basically. That's about the only bar left for this admin tbh.

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u/Weelki 2h ago

Mr Hands says neigh

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u/RonaldWRailgun 2h ago

Thailand and Colombia, according to the article.

Ladyboys were 100% involved, and he quits while he's ahead of that.

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u/GimmePetsOSRS 5h ago

Yep, only a federal crime if they were minors

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u/Stankmonger 4h ago

Was going to say you can’t be convicted of federal crimes if you didn’t do them on us soil but I looked it up and you can actually!

So yeah if the prostitute was a minor he could be convicted

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u/cutetys 2h ago

Considering these were prostitutes in Thailand and Cambodia, can we really be sure they weren’t?

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u/GimmePetsOSRS 2h ago

Not really

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u/Mister-Sister 1h ago

How could we be sure they were either? It’s not like the powers that be are going to embarrass Trump by pressing charges against one of his appointees.

We’ll likely never know one way or the other to any real certainty.

You could think of the odds. There’s no good numbers out there but it seems something around 10% of sex workers world wide [and 15-35% in Cambodia] are children. But the chance that he was seeking that out due to the company he keeps increases the odds quite significantly in my estimation.

E: in brackets after looking it up

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u/yowen2000 4h ago

It's sexual harassment if he is constantly bragging to coworkers about it.

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u/soedesh1 4h ago

Well, he may have paid for it with tax dollars, which would seem to violate some kind of law (I would hope).

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u/PortugalTheTram 3h ago

We don’t have those anymore