Former Border Patrol chief known for illegal coverups leads Pretti homicide investigation.

This morning, MSNOW reported that the Alex Pretti homicide is being investigated by Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility (CBP-OPR). While this unit does have the legal authority to investigate such use of force violations as Mr. Pretti’s homicide, there is a huge issue with these teams the media seems unwilling to address; they consist of former Border Patrol agents who were part of the agency’s illegal and secret coverup teams known as Critical Incident Teams.

In 2021, I came forward to blow the whistle on the secret and illegal coverup teams used on the southern border since 1987 to contaminate evidence, disperse witnesses and limit the criminal and civil liability of agents and the Border Patrol. In 2022, CBP and the Biden Administration agreed that the teams were illegal and disbanded themwithin the agency. Unfortunately, they did not hold anyone accountable for covering up thirty-five years worth of killings. The agents were allowed to resign the Border Patrol and simply rehired under CBP-OPR’s investigative division that was also run by a former Border Patrol agent, Daniel Altman. The majority of Altman’s investigators were and still are ex-Border Patrol agents.

Part of whistle blowing on these teams involved me investigating the Anastasio Hernandez Rojas killing by Border Patrol, CBP and ICE agents at the San Ysidro port of entry in California in 2010. This investigation resulted in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights finding that the United States did violate Anastasio’s human rights by taking his life that night and that the San Diego Border Patrol’s Critical Incident Team did in fact coverup that killing. They argued that the United States must re-open the murder investigation, because former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott had used the teams to get rid of witnesses and obstruct the official homicide investigation being conducted by the San Diego Police Department.

The part the media is keeping from you is that former Border Patrol Chief Scott is now the Commissioner of CBP. This means that Scott is back in charge of the same coverup teams he used as a chief in the Border Patrol. Anastasio’s homicide is just one of these cases covered up by Scott. At this very moment, these same teams are conducting the investigation into Mr. Pretti’s homicide. And once again, we see how the once illegal and secret investigators for Border Patrol continue to lie and obstruct justice as CBP-OPR investigators:

From the video evidence, it is clear that agents shot Pretti after he was disarmed.

What makes all of this worse is that national media keeps interviewing former Commissioner of CBP Gil Kerlikowski. Kerlikowski served under Obama which was when Anastasio’s killing was covered up. Kerlikowski was responsible for creating the National Use of Force Review Board for Border Patrol use of force violations insisting this board would bring accountability to the agency. Only he never publicly admitted that he issued a secret internal directive that ordered the review board to only use the evidence gathered by the illegal and secret Critical Incident Teams. Former Commissioner Kerlikowski continued the coverups that allows current Commissioner Scott to use them again today.

If you’d like to see how Commissioner Scott used the illegal and secret teams to get away with the homicide of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, there just happens to be a documentary out on HBO and Amazon Prime called Critical Incident which details the event. 

At this very moment, current CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott is using these same teams to conduct the investigation into Alex Pretti’s homicide. Don’t expect them to find any evidence that would lead to a prosecution. As Border Patrol Chief Bovino stated, they consider the agents to be the victim and the dead to be the aggressors.