President-elect Donald Trump has selected former U. S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott, who President Joe Biden put out to pasture, as the director of U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP).
Trump stated in a statement that” Rodney served for nearly three decades in the Border Patrol, building large experience and knowledge in law enforcement and frontier security.” ” Rodney served as the 24th Chief of the U. S. Border Patrol, where he implemented Remain-in-Mexico, Title 42, Safe Third Agreements, and achieved record low amounts of illegal immigration”.
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” As the Chief, he led over 22, 000 officers, and was responsible for securing the International Borders of the U. S. between the formal ships of entry”, said Trump. Rodney has continued to inform officials and the general public about the value of effective border security after his retirement.
Without Trump as president, CBP.
CBP has been without a Senate-confirmed head for two centuries. Chris Magnus, recently police chief of Tucson, AZ, was nominated in April 2021 but not confirmed until after that month.
Magnus was forced out less than a year on the task and , resigned in November 2022 after refusing the Department of Homeland Security , secretary’s get to step down amid the worst , borders crisis , in America’s past.
Since Biden took office in January 2021, Troy Miller has served as the CPB commissioner’s senior official, performing his duties through Magnus’s appearance. When Magnus leaves, he has stepped up.
Miller served as the National Targeting Center’s executive producer, which is in charge of putting the firm’s counterterrorism strategy into practice. He started his career in 1993 as a customs examiner.  ,
Miller was expected to be a temporary fill-in at offices but has carried out the Biden administration’s shifts to immigration laws, even , mandating , that people stop using words such as “illegal humanoid” in favor of more diverse speech.
Meet Rodney Scott
Rodney Scott and Jason Owens, both of whom have led the U. S. Border Patrol, had topped the list for CBP director, as well as Mike Banks, the frontier king for the state of Texas.
Before Biden forced him to step down five months into his name and Scott left in August 2021, Scott was the captain of the Border Patrol. Owens , took over , as captain of the 20, 000-employee Border Patrol in mid-2023 and is now the key.  , Border Patrol makes up roughly one-third of CBP.
Scott, who hails from Southern California, signed up for the Border Patrol in 1992 at San Diego’s Imperial Beach Station. Prior to being named Anti-Terrorism Advisor to the CBP Commissioner following the terrorist attack, he rose through the ranks to become CBP Office of Anti-Terrorism deputy professional producer. He then rose up the ranks.
According to a person with knowledge of the domestic relations, Scott was promoted to Border Patrol captain under Trump but was forced to step down in August 2021.
Scott pushed out by Biden
Under Biden, Scott was given what Border Patrol agents refer to as the” three R letter”, which stands for resign, retire, or relocate. Scott wrote in a 2021 post on his private Instagram page that he had received a letter from him asking him to depart.
” I received my 3R email now. For those not comfortable, that is National authorities slang for the notice issued to]Senior Executive Service ] level employees informing them of a directed change. The receiver has 3 options- travel, withdraw, or retire. No logic or purpose is required, nor is it disciplinary”, Scott wrote. Simply stated,” Just a simple demands of the service directed change so that the new leadership can spot the person they want in the place.”
One man claimed that Scott’s being pushed out was not related to how well-intentioned he was as chief of staff for the 18 months and how he had handled the boom in people crossing the southern boundary since Biden took office.
In early 2021, Scott had sent Miller a letter coming out against the then-new Biden government’s plans to do away with the constitutional term “illegal humanoid” in place of “undocumented refugees”.
Back of an , April 19 announcement , from Troy Miller, the momentary head of U. S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s national captain, Rodney Scott, sent an internal letter to his superior, criticizing the decision to change immigration terms with ones seen as less unpleasant.  ,
For U.S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) communications and materials, the proposed updated terminology is intended to serve as my official nonconcurrence, according to this memo. I did not destroy this work, however, I don’t embrace it”, Scott wrote in a text to Miller on April 16, 2021.
” The U. S. Border Patrol ( USBP ) is and must remain an apolitical federal law enforcement agency. Over the years, many outside forces on both extremes of the political spectrum have intentionally, or unintentionally politicized our agency and our mission”, wrote Scott. There is no doubt that the reputation of the USBP has suffered as a result of the numerous outside voices, despite every effort made by the leadership of the organization to ensure that all official messaging remained true to law, fact, and evidence. The potential to further erode public trust in our government institutions is when the use of terms that are incompatible with the law is suggested.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas, hired the 29-year veteran of law enforcement as a visiting fellow.
Running CBP for Trump 2.0
CBP has 65, 000 employees and is comprised of several smaller organizations, including the Border Patrol. CBP is in charge of inspecting people and goods entering the country via air, land, and sea.
U. S. Border Patrol agents reacted ecstatically to news that Trump , would return to the White House after defeating Vice President , Kamala Harris on Nov. 5.
” We have hope.  , We can take care of our country and our citizens.  , Do what we took an oath to do. Bring pride back to our agency, a senior Border Patrol agent in Texas wrote in a text message on Wednesday morning. We felt compelled to abandon our nation, they said! No more!! “!
Under the Biden administration, more than 10.7 million people have been encountered by federal police attempting to enter the country, more than any two-term administration, according to U. S. Customs and Border Protection , statistics.
Although the current administration has returned more illegal immigrants to Mexico and other nations, it has also released more than any other administration into the nation to await court dates years down the road.
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One-in-five voters in battleground states identified , immigration , and , border security , as their top concerns in the days after the November 5th election, according to exit polling conducted by a conservative nonprofit organization.
The average American in key states was concerned about the illegal immigration crisis and the southern border, according to a Building America’s Future memo that was obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner.
