Rodney Scott: CBP Commissioner

Rodney Scott

Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott was confirmed as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in June 2025. Leading roughly 67,000 personnel, he focused on strict border enforcement, surveillance expansion, and resuming border wall construction, including controversial projects in Texas's Big Bend region.

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Year	Rodney Scott
1992	Enlistment in the United States Border Patrol (Period: May 11, 1992, Location: San Diego area, California, United States)
2010	Excessive Use of Force by Border Patrol and Deficiencies in Internal Investigations (Period: 2010 incident, investigations from the 2010s onward, Location: San Ysidro Port of Entry, California, United States) Allegations of Obstruction of Investigation and Cover-Up Regarding the Death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas (Period: May 2010 onward, Location: San Diego, California; San Ysidro Port of Entry, United States)
2012	Promotion to Deputy Chief Patrol Agent of the San Diego Sector (Period: 2012, Location: San Diego, California, United States)
2016	Appointment as Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector (Period: 2016, Location: El Centro, Imperial County, California, United States)
2019	Participation in and Supervisory Responsibility for Facebook Group Sharing Racist and Misogynistic Posts (Period: Issues surfaced from 2019 – 2025, Location: Private online Facebook group)
2020	Appointment as 24th Chief of the United States Border Patrol (Period: February 2, 2020, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
2021	Appointment as Distinguished Senior Fellow for Border Security and Immigration Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (Period: August 2021 onward, Location: Texas, United States) Posts Suggesting Sexual Assault Against Former Border Patrol Agent Jenn Budd (Period: September 2021, Location: Online social media)
2024	Nomination as Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Period: December 2024, Location: United States)
2025	Promotion of Border Wall Construction Plan in the Big Bend Region of Texas (Period: 2025 – 2026, Location: Big Bend region, Texas, United States) Appointment as 6th Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Period: June 23, 2025 (Senate confirmed on June 18), Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
Unknown	Birth of Rodney Scott (Period: Unknown, Location: Indiana, United States (city of birth unknown)) Cochise College (Period: Unknown, Location: Arizona, United States) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Leadership Institute (Period: Unknown, Location: United States) Naval Postgraduate School Executive Leaders Program (Period: Unknown, Location: Monterey, California, United States) Marriage (Rodney Scott, Tandy Scott, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)

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Cabinet	Marco Rubio Pete Hegseth Markwayne Mullin Todd Blanche Scott Bessent Howard Lutnick Doug Burgum Brooke Rollins Keith Sonderling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Linda McMahon Scott Turner Sean Duffy Chris Wright Doug Collins
Immigration Policy	Stephen Miller Markwayne Mullin Tom Homan Kristi Noem Greg Bovino Rodney Scott Caleb Vitello Troy Miller

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