Trump-Era Border Patrol Chief Ousted
Rodney Scott, who took over the agency during the final year of the Trump administration, was an avid supporter of "zero-tolerance policies" and building the border wall.
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The Biden administration is forcing out the chief of the United States Border Patrol, Rodney S. Scott, who took over the agency during the final year of the Trump administration, reports the New York Times. Scott was an avid supporter of Trump’s signature immigration policy of extending a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile border between the United States and Mexico. He was formerly the head of the San Diego Border Patrol sector when agents fired tear gas across the Mexican border at migrants headed toward the United States, and was in charge of the agency when highly trained Border Patrol agents, assigned to investigate drug smuggling organizations, were deployed to the streets of Portland, Ore., last summer, with violent results. Earlier this year, Scott refused to follow a Biden administration directive to stop using the phrase “illegal alien” in discussing undocumented immigrants. In a post on social media on Wednesday, Scott said it was not surprising that a new administration would want to install its own chief.
