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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Kate Morrissey

Trump’s Nominee to Head Customs and Border Protection Could Be Implicated in Alleged Cover-Up

Customs and Border Protection Commissioner nominee Rodney Scott in the Hart Senate Office Building on April 7 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run Customs and Border Protection has been accused of participating in an alleged agency cover-up after officials killed a man in the process of deporting him in 2010.

The family of Anastasio Hernández Rojas is waiting on a decision from an international human rights tribunal that conducted a yearslong investigation into his killing and alleged torture and subsequent denial of justice. 

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