The Trump administration has named a new head of the U.S. Border Patrol
were published, that Congress authorized additional funding to increase capacity.
He has spent much of a his career in San Diego, joining the agency when the area was by far the busiest corridor for illegal crossings and agents were badly overmatched. He began shortly before the Clinton administration launched Operation Gatekeeper to dramatically increase enforcement in San Diego. Illegal crossings plummeted, but critics note that the effort pushed traffic to remote parts of California and Arizona, where thousands of people have died in heat.
When Scott was elevated to San Diego sector chief in December 2017, he spoke at length at his promotion ceremony about San Diego’s evolution before and after Gatekeeper. He shared the same story, in abbreviated form, with Trump on live television when the Republican president toured border wall prototypes in March 2018. Trump himself often cites San Diego as a model of what he hopes to achieve across the border.of the Border agency.
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