Critical Incident: Death at the Border (2025)
86 min
Revisits the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in custody at the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, lawyers’, and family members’ efforts to explore the Border Patrol’s involvement in the incident, ultimately pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit inside the agency that had been involved in other border related incident.
- Release date
- December 29, 2025
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Brian McOmber
Trailer
Cast
- Rodney Scott as Self - Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief
- Ron Newquist as Self - San Diego Police Dept., Ret. Detective
- María Puga as Self - Anastasio's Wife
- Gene Iredale as Self - Civil Attorney for Anastasio's Family
- John Carlos Frey as Self - Investigative Reporter
- Raul Ortiz as Self - U.S. Border Patrol Chief
- Andrea Guerrero as Self - Southern Border Communities Coalition
- Roxanna Altholz as Self - Int'l Human Rights Lawyer & Professor
- Jenn Budd as Self - Former Border Patrol Agent
Crew
- Anastasio Hernández-Rojas · Archive footage
- Rick Rowley · Director
- Rick Rowley · Writer
- Karim Hajj · Producer
- Brian McOmber · Composer
- Rick Rowley · Cinematographer
- J.D. Marlow · Editor