Senate Confirms Border Patrol Veteran of 30 Years Who Was Fired by Mayorkas to Lead CBP
By Becca Lower | 6:54 PM on June 18, 2025
On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Rodney Scott, President Trump's pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection as its commissioner, with a tally of 51 to 46 votes.
The confirmation comes one day after my colleague Bob Hoge wrote on the awesome stats on immigration, with a "staggering drop" in the number of illegals being released into the country. (In case you missed it, in May, it was exactly zero vs. 62,000 in May '24 under Biden.)
Rodney Scott is a 30-year veteran of the Border Patrol, who previously served as the chief patrol agent in San Diego sector under the first Trump administration, before earning promotion to chief of the U.S. Border Patrol from 2020 to 2021. In June '21, former CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan, who promoted Scott, expressed his anger at then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for firing Scott, a "man of integrity" and "courage," explaining that Scott had been "very honest and open about his criticisms" of the Biden administration's handling of the border "impact[ing] their ability to secure our borders."
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