The U.S. Senate has confirmed Rodney Scott as head of Customs and Border Protection. This despite mounting accusations that Scott attempted to cover-up and obstruct the criminal investigation into the fatal beating of Anastasio Hernández Rojas in 2010. Rojas, a Mexican father, was crossing the southern border in an attempt to return to San Diego, where he had lived for 25 years, to reunite with his wife and five children after being deported. He was stopped by border agents, who brutally beat and tasered him, while he was handcuffed, until Rojas died from heart failure. His death was later ruled a homicide.