Trump's nominee to head customs and border protection could be implicated in alleged cover-up

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Source: daily kos



Rodney Scott led the U.S. Border Patrol sector in San Diego when officials killed immigrant Anastasio Hernández Rojas.

Saturday, May 03, 2025 at 4:00:01p CDT

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run Customs and Border Protection has been accused of participating in an alleged agency cover-up after officials killed a man in the process of deporting him in 2010.

The family of Anastasio Hernández Rojas is waiting on a decision from an international human rights tribunal that conducted a yearslong investigation into his killing and alleged torture and subsequent denial of justice.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security last week asking for documents related to the case in preparation for Wednesday’s confirmation hearing of Rodney Scott, who oversaw a special team that attorneys for the family say helped the officials involved in the 2010 incident escape prosecution.

“I have serious concerns about the gross failures of integrity and leadership he has shown,” Wyden wrote in the letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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In the aftermath of the killing, a Border Patrol investigative team that Scott oversaw at the time began working the case even though the San Diego Police Department’s homicide team had jurisdiction. Over the years, that Border Patrol team has been accused of covering up and even tampering with evidence both in Hernández Rojas’ case and in other instances of officers or agents using potentially excessive force.
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Scott’s association with the Hernández Rojas case isn’t the only part of his past that immigrant rights activists find problematic with his nomination.

For example..........

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If I read this right--the upcoming Confirmation meeting is next Wednesday==and Sen Wyden is waiting for a letter from Noem.

Link to tweet

Rodney Scott, nominee to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on April 30.

[ShazzieB]

1. I'm sure Schlump thinks this dude is just great! 🙄

For starters, he looks like a mean, ornery cuss, which to Schlump would mean TOUGH GUY. And I'm Schlump views his involvement in the Alvarez incident as a feather in his cap, not a drawback.

I'm not sure when the confirmation hearing is, but it should be interesting. I really, really hope it doesn't end like the confirmations of most of his other nominations, with most of the Republicans linking arms and voting to confirm in lockstep ‐ but I am definitely not holding my breath.

[MLWR]

2. Crook magnets attract other crooks

As in "birds of a feather flock together."

[Botany]

3. The killing of a Hispanic by the name of Hernndez Rojas* will be seen by Krasnov and his base as a .....

… positive thing. Krasnov and the GOP are racist shits who in their fucked up world see the
world in really fucked up way.