US Border Patrol names Anthony 'Scott' Good as new El Paso Sector chief
The U.S. Border Patrol has named Anthony "Scott" Good as chief of the El Paso Sector, which includes El Paso, part of West Texas and all of New Mexico.
Good previously served as sector chief in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In 22 years with the federal government, he has served at the northern and southern borders and at Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Good takes over the sector after former El Paso Sector Chief Gloria Chavez departed in October to lead the Rio Grande Valley Sector in South Texas. Acting Chief Patrol Agent Peter Jaquez, who directed the El Paso Sector in the interim, returns to his role as deputy chief patrol agent in El Paso.
The El Paso Sector includes 264 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. El Paso has been one of the busiest sectors along the border in the past year, with hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers and other migrants seeking entry to the United States.
Good will oversee roughly 2,000 agents assigned to the sector and is likely to face numerous challenges as the number of migrants arriving in Juárez grows and frustrations boil over.
On Sunday, hundreds of migrants — acting on a rumor that the U.S. would admit them — rushed onto the Paso Del Norte bridge in Downtown, prompting U.S. Customs and Border Protection to shut down the bridge for roughly five hours. Dozens of other migrants amassed at the borderline; some threw rocks from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande Canal and Border Patrol agents responded by firing pepper balls to disperse the group.
The El Paso Sector reported nearly 308,000 migrant encounters in fiscal 2022, up 59% from more than 193,000 in fiscal 2021. The sector has nearly reached the 2021 total in the first four months of fiscal 2023, with more than 192,000 encounters recorded October through January.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: US Border Patrol names Anthony 'Scott' Good new El Paso Sector chief
