Biden to tap former police chief to lead CBP and former NSA official to head cybersecurity agency

President Biden is nominating a former Obama administration lawyer and a progressive police chief to lead agencies in charge of the country's legal immigration bureaucracy and border policy as part of a new installment of Department of Homeland Security appointments, White House officials confirmed to CBS News Monday.

Nearly three months into his administration, the president has appointed six allies to help steer a department grappling with two disparate problems: rising levels of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border and the aftermath of two sweeping cyber-attacks – the Russian cyberespionage campaign "SolarWinds" and a Chinese hack of Microsoft Exchange servers. The president has chosen Chris Mangus, police chief of Tucson, Arizona, and outspoken critic of the Trump administration's immigration policies to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection and former chief counsel for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Ur Jaddou, to lead the agency.