The Biden administration already has nominated its own head of CBP, Tucson captain Chris Magnus, who is widely considered a supporter of the sorts of immigration reform championed by Biden.
CBP Deputy Chief Raul Ortiz is predicted to step into the leadership role on an acting basis while Magnus goes through the Senate confirmation process.
Scott, who had been chief for nearly 18 months, first joined the patrol in 1992 and worked his high to go of its San Diego sector then acting deputy chief, consistent with his bio on the Homeland Security Department website.
Under Scott’s watch, the patrol handled a record-breaking surge of unaccompanied minors arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, which overwhelmed federal border facilities and made many children to be placed in shelters.
In recent years, Scott was a number one voice in support of then-President Trump’s involve more miles of border barrier, speaking out against Democrats in Congress who favored other ways of addressing the influx of undocumented immigrants.
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“I started within the San Diego sector in 1992 and it didn’t matter what percentage agents we lined up,” Scott told National Public Radio during a January 2019 story, while taking a reporter on a ride-along. “We couldn’t make a measurable impact on the flow [of undocumented immigrants] across the border. It wasn’t until we installed barriers along the border that gave us the whip hand that we began to get control.”
In an undated article on CBP’s own website, Scott described the chaos of performing at the border during that first 1992 assignment.
He said thousands of individuals had lined up and rushed en bloc over the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego , overwhelming patrol agents and ensuring that the majority of them got through.
“On day one once I showed up to figure ,” Scott added, “I saw many people running up the median of Interstate 5, helicopters buzzing around, and that i thought there was some quite big incident or crisis that day.”
It wasn’t long, though, the article said, before Scott “quickly acknowledged it had been just a traditional day.”