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Washington – President Trump’s candidate for the US Customs Command and border protects the audit of his role in investigating the death of a migrant brutally beaten by border border agents in 2010.
Critics claim that Rodney Scott participated in covering up and not qualified to lead the agency. Its defenders say that he has acts appropriately and described it as a good option to head one of the largest federal agencies with more than 60,000 employees, including the border patrol and agents in entry ports.
Rodney Scott, who led the US Border Patrol until 2021, faced questions about the death of Senators on Wednesday during the Senate Finance Committee’s hearing to consider his candidacy.
“Today’s session is to determine whether Rodney Scott has this experience, in addition to the strength of the personality that must be trusted with one of the most important jobs in the government,” said Senator Ron Widen. “Evidence indicates that it is short.”
Scott Yeno was a vice president of a patrol in the San Diego border patrol sector when the agents overcame the deportation of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas and hit him in a corridor in the port of San Yisidero’s entry until he stopped breathing, as the records of the court appear. He died in a hospital two days later, leaving behind a wife and five children.
Federal officials said Hernandez Rojas, 42, fought with the agents trying to remove him from the country.
Last week, Widen sent a message to the Ministry of Internal Security in search of documents related to death and investigation. On Tuesday, the Minister of Internal Security, Christie sleep, did not include documents. Widan’s “unprepared” novel described the alleged role of Scott in the investigation “anger and offensive.”
Nom said that Scott was not at the scene when the accident occurred, and he was limited to involvement with an internal investigation team that reviewed the case, and did not hinder external investigations or hide the facts.
“He reviewed at least seven local and federal investigative bodies, the circumstances of the death of Mr. Hernandez Rojas, and none of them found evidence of procedures that are inconsistent with the law, regulations or politics.”
“The family had never received a complete accountability for how to address the investigation.”
“His family spent years in asking the same question: How can the 17 police enforce agency, customs and border protection, die to death, on the basis of dozens of eyewitnesses on a video without result?” I wrote.
In 2017, the government settled a federal lawsuit with the Hernandez Rojas family for a million dollars.
In a historic decision on Wednesday, an international human rights committee found that the United States is responsible for the death of Hernandez Rojas and that the cover -up followed it. The Human Rights Committee between America-an independent judicial body within the American-US-state organization called for a criminal investigation into the relevant agents.
During the session, Widen called Noem to not produce the documents he requested.
Widan said: “Al -Amin replied with a message that he said that Mr. Scott was the perfect angel in the first place and all allegations against him are false, but she produced zero documents that requested her support.” “On the first 100 days of this administration, this agency seems to be allergic to the truth.”
Before the Wednesday session, James Wong, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Affairs Office at CBP, wrote to Widen with concern about the treatment of Scott with the death of Hernandez Rojas.
The units known as the critical accident teams (CIT), which were resolved in 2022, achieved incidents of force use in the border patrol. “They were designed” to alleviate the responsibility for the senior management of the border and present the border patrol at the best possible light, “Wong wrote.
The team used an administrative summons, Scott signed, to get the medical records of Hernández Rojas. “It was starkly illegal” because “these call notes should be used only for the very limited purpose of examining imports and exports, not to collect medical evidence or to search for places.”
“By virtue of his position, Mr. Scott had supervised all Cit operations in the case, and all Cit information had been liquidated through the CBP headquarters.” “This was not an investigation, it was a cover-up-Ashraf Sayyid Scott.”
In her message to Widan, Nayyim wrote that “the signing of Mr. Scott and the implementation of the administrative summons that he signed, are in line with the policy of law and the agency.”
According to court records, officials at the scene Image erasure and videos Witness phones. The decisive accident team refused to grant San Diego Hernandez Medical Police. Footage of the scene has been written with new recordings.
Senator Mike Crabo asked Scott whether “doing anything in this case to interfere in the investigation.”
“Certainly no,” Scott answered.
Weiden also faced a problem with other incidents in the past of Scott, saying he had not learned from his mistakes.
One of these was a Scott membership in a private Facebook group of border patrol agents with more than 9000 members that included racist and violent functions.
Widen also cited Scott’s response to a former and survivor agent of sexual assault, which has published criticism of Skut on X.
Scott responded with a job on its own:
“I have searched all your allegations. You cannot find crumbs of evidence to support any of them. But I discovered a lot about you. You tend back, closed your eyes and enjoy the show.”
A judge entitled Scott Post “described” classic rape threat “but found that he did not represent an imminent threat to violence.
Scott defended his record, saying he was transparent throughout his career. He said he apologized to the former customer for his position, describing her as a “weak moment” that was not supposed to threaten.
“Everyone makes mistakes,” he said. “I think the one I made was very simple. We learn from them and move forward.”
The Biden Scott administration forced out of its role in the border patrol in 2021 after objected to the directions of stopping the use of terms such as “illegal foreigner”.
On Wednesday, the Democrats and Republicans congratulated Scott on his candidacy. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WIS) suggested that an attempt to prevent his candidacy from moving forward will not succeed.
“I apologize for a distortion campaign,” Scott said.