Mark Morgan is a Visiting Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation. He began his thirty-year-career in law enforcement as a police officer, moved to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent – retiring as an Assistant Director, became Chief of U.S. Border Patrol in the Obama Administration, and ultimately was appointed as the Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest Federal Law enforcement agency in the U.S., in the Trump Administration. He holds a Juris Doctor Degree and is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He lives in Virginia.