Trump border selection accuses the “cover-up” about the death of the man who was beaten by US agents

Rodney Scott, Donald Trump's candidate who headed customs and border protection (CBP), was accused by a former chief official of having orchestrated a “cover-up” because of the death of a man when he tried to enter the country from Mexico, according to a letter received from the guardian.

Scott is a former American border protection chief who supported the President's vow of building a wall along the border with Mexico and criticizing Joe Biden's dealings with immigration policy. As Commissioner of CBP, Scott would lead one of the largest law enforcement authorities in the federal government, which comprises the border patrol and employee ports in the United States.

The Senate's financial committee will consider Scott's nomination on Wednesday. Before the hearing, James Wong, a former deputy commissioner of the CBP office for internal affairs, wrote to the top democrat of the committee with “concern” about the examination of the death of the death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, which was beaten by CBP posts to deport him to deport him.

His death was examined by San Diego's police authority at a time when Scott was a top border protection officer in the city, to monitor a so-called critical incident team (CIT). The teams that CBP dissolved in 2022 were created to examine “incidents of the usage of force”, and “are designed to reduce liability for the senior management of Border Patrol and to present border patrol in the best possible light,” wrote Wong.

The CIT used a summons to receive Hernández Rojas' medical documents, “probably to spin information for her own PR,” said Wong. “The use of a CBP administrative summons for this purpose was obviously illegal, and everyone who signed it should have known this.”

“Because of his position, Mr. Scott would have supervised all CIT operations for the case, and all CIT information would have filtered him into the CBP headquarters,” Wong wrote in the letter to the Ranking member Ron Wyden.

“This was not an investigation, it was supervised to Mr. Scott. This abuse of power disqualifies him from the leadership of one of the largest law enforcement authorities in the country.”

Scott did not answer several inquiries about comments.

Wyden described Scott's handling of the Hernández Rojas case “deeply disturbing” and asked the Ministry of Homeland Security on records in connection with death and investigation.

“In the hands of someone who supposedly abused his position of power, the huge security apparatus for which CBP is responsible could be suspended for damage,” Wyden wrote in a letter to Kristi Noem, the secretary of the home protection.

A spokesman for Wyden said he had not received an answer from the department.

CBP employees are often the first to encounter immigrants, and as commissioner, Scott would be able to carry out the president's hard approach for immigration policy.

Since taking office, Trump has prevented asylum seekers from entering the United States and authorized the US military to use the Mexico border. At the beginning of this month, border guards in Arizona arrested a US citizen for almost 10 days in Arizona because they suspected that he was undocumented.

Scott's Border Patrol career ended in 2021 when the Biden government forced him from the workplace after the right news page was given a memo in which he objected to his commands not to use terms such as “illegal foreigners”.

Later this year, a report by the House Supervisory Committee found that Scott was a member of “II 10-15”, a private Facebook group for border protection officers with more than 9,500 members, whose name was a reference to the code for “extraterrestrial in custody”.

The participants of the group insulted congress members and published “racist and sexually violent content”, especially after the legislature had attended a prison of the immigrants in 2019, as was found in the report.

In other cases, a border patrol agent in the group shared a picture of a drowned migrant and a child and described her as a “swimmer”, while a supervisor published an internal video of an immigrant who fell fatally from a cliff.

According to the committee, Scott said that he allowed him to “know what the workforce speaks of” in the group.

Scott also tried to violate the practice of the first Trump government to violently separate children with a migration background from their parents on the border between the USA and Mexico. “Family separation as a politics is a lie,” he told Fox News in 2018 and argued that children were simply taken from parents who had illegally exceeded the border.

Republican senators with whom Scott met have signaled the support for his nomination, with John Cornyn from the border state Texas called him a “fantastic choice”.