Donald Trump nominee Rodney Scott, a former senior official, has charged heading the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) with accusing a detained man of "covering" trying to enter the country from Mexico.

Scott, a former head of the U.S. Border Patrol, supported the president's vow to build a wall along the border with Mexico and criticized Joe Biden's handling of immigration policies. As a CBP Commissioner, Scott will lead one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies that covers border patrol and employees’ inbounders across the United States.

The Senate Finance Committee will consider Scott's nomination on Wednesday. Before the hearing, James Wong, a former deputy assistant commissioner of the CBP Office of Internal Affairs, wrote to committee Democrats this week about Scott's investigation into the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas in San Diego, who was beaten by CBP Agents and beaten by CBP Agents and beaten by CBP Agents.

Scott was the city’s top Border Patrol official when the San Diego Police Department investigated his death, and Wong said his death put him in a position to oversee the so-called Critical Event Team (CIT). Wong wrote.

Wong said CIT used subpoenas to obtain Hernández Rojas' medical records "probably to rotate information for its own PR." “The use of CBP administrative subpoena used for this purpose is blatantly illegal and anyone who signs it should know this.”

"Based on his position, Mr. Scott will oversee all CIT operations in the case, and all CIT information will be filtered through him to the CBP headquarters."

“It’s not an investigation, it’s a cover-up – Mr. Scott oversees an abuse of power that disqualifies him from leading one of the country’s largest law enforcement agencies.”

Scott did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Wyden called Scott's handling of Hernández Rojas' case "disturbing" and asked the Department of Homeland Security to claim records related to the death and investigation.

"In the hands of those who allegedly repeatedly abuse their position of power, the huge security agency responsible for the CBP could be hurt by the injury," Wyden wrote in a letter to Secretary Kristi Noem.

A spokesman for Wyton said he has not received a response from the department.

CBP employees are often the first to meet immigrants, and as commissioners, Scott will be able to play a role in implementing the president's Immigration Policy.

Since taking office, Trump has blocked asylum seekers from entering the United States and authorized the U.S. military to deploy along the border with Mexico. Earlier this month, Arizona Border Patrol agents detained U.S. citizens in Arizona for nearly 10 days because they suspected he had no document.

Scott's Border Patrol career ended in 2021, when the Biden administration forced him out of work after obtaining a memo on the right-wing news site Breitbart, opposing his orders not to use terms such as "illegal aliens."

Later that year, a House Oversight Committee report found that Scott was a member of "I 10-15," a Facebook group of private Facebook Patrol agents with more than 9,500 members whose name is the code for "Alien Detention."

The report found that participants in the group insulted members of Congress and released “racist and sexually violent content” against them, especially after lawmakers visited immigration detention centers in 2019.

In other cases, a photo of a drowning immigrant father and child from a Border Patrol agent was shared in the group and called it a “floater”, while the supervisor released an internal video in which an immigrant fell off a cliff.

According to the committee, Scott said the group allowed him to “know what the labor force is talking about.”

Scott also tried to downplay the first Trump administration’s practice of forcibly separating immigrant children from parents on the U.S.-Mexico border. "Family separation is a lie," he told Fox News in 2018. He believes that children are simply taken away from parents facing prosecution because they illegally crossed the border.

The Republican senator Scott met with showed support for his nomination, which John Cornyn of the Texas Border state called “a great choice.”