Former Border Patrol Chief Says Agents Can’t Vet Illegal Immigrants From ‘Vast Majority of the Globe’

Ex-Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott testifies on the limitations of vetting migrants’ criminal records due to limited global data access.

Illegal immigrants wait to be processed by U.S. border agents at the U.S.-Mexico border on March 30, 2023. Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty Images

Former Chief of Border Patrol Rodney Scott explained to members of the House that the vetting process used to keep criminals out of the United States is only accurate in cases where agents have access to correct information.

According to the former border chief, agents have no information about migrants from “the vast majority of the globe,” including illegal immigrants from countries like the African nation of Mauritania.