Overview

• Scott was confirmed by the Senate on June 18 in a party-line 51-46 vote, filling the longest vacancy in CBP leadership in recent decades.
• A Border Patrol agent since 1992, Scott climbed through anti-terrorism and executive roles before serving as Border Patrol chief during Trump’s first term.
• Senators opposing his nomination cited allegations by former CBP official James Wong that Scott oversaw a 2010 cover-up of Anastasio Hernández Rojas’s death and noted his ties to a private Facebook group where racist content was posted.
• CBP statistics show monthly illegal border encounters fell to six-decade lows last month under Trump’s executive actions, a decline Scott intends to maintain.
• Scott pledges to expand physical barriers and surveillance technology and to enforce swift legal consequences for migrants who violate U.S. laws.