""Critical Incident: Death at the Border" recounts the death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a 42-year-old undocumented immigrant who died in 2010 days after immigration agents handcuffed, beat and Tasered him near the San Ysidro Port of Entry after trying to deport him to Mexico. Border Patrol at the time said they used force after Hernández Rojas, who had lived in this country since he was 15, resisted them."
"The case drew international attention and Hernández Rojas' family received a $1-million settlement from the federal government, which declined to file criminal charges against those involved in his death even though the San Diego County coroner's office ruled it a homicide. Enter John Carlos Frey, a reporter who has pursued the story for nearly 15 years and who is one of the protagonists in "Critical Incident.""
"He knocks on the doors of agents who were there when Hernández Rojas died, discovers footage that contradicts the Border Patrol's official account and uncovers a secretive Border Patrol unit tasked with the "mitigation" of use-of-force incidents that was disbanded in 2022. The documentary includes an interview with a whistleblower who claimed bosses told him to doctor evidence to exculpate the agency in the death of Hernández Rojas."
Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a 42-year-old undocumented immigrant, died in 2010 days after Border Patrol agents handcuffed, beat and Tasered him near the San Ysidro Port of Entry during an attempted deportation to Mexico. The San Diego County coroner ruled the death a homicide, and the federal government paid the family a $1-million settlement while declining criminal charges. An investigative reporter pursued the case for nearly 15 years, locating footage that contradicted the agency's account, revealing a secretive Border Patrol mitigation unit later disbanded in 2022, and documenting a whistleblower's claim that supervisors directed evidence manipulation; agency leadership denied culpability.
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