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Each year through the budgetary process, Congress allocates approximately $2 billion to Border Patrol. The funding is justified and defended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which claims DHS works to protect the American people and economy by preventing the illegal movement of people and contraband across U.S. borders while facilitating legitimate trade and travel.

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the mission of the force is to, Protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nations economic prosperity.

Further, the core values include a dedication to defending and upholding the Constitution of the United States. Integrity is touted as the cornerstone of the work agents do, guided by the highest ethical and moral principles bringing honor to ourselves and our agency.

But since President BidenJoe BidenBriahna Joy Gray: Biden's Supreme Court promise 'bare minimum' gesture to Black voters House GOP leader says State of the Union attendance could be capped: report Record enrollment numbers send a clear message about health care affordability, access MORE took office in January 2021, the unofficial mission of Border Patrol has shifted to processing millions of illegal immigrants. This takes important time away from essential frontline patrols and drug interdictions. As a consequence, Border Patrol has become detached from its stated mission and priorities.

On Oct. 4, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was reimplementing Title 42, which requires the immediate expulsion of single adults.

The Department of Homeland Security will continue to process individuals in accordance with the updated Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) Title 42 Order. As part the United States COVID-19 mitigation efforts, DHS will continue to expel single adults and families encountered at the Southwest Border, the Department of Homeland Security released in a statement.

Since then, the policy has hardly been enforced, and recent video footage obtained by Fox News shows thousands of single adult males being processed, put onto planes or buses and taken to cities across the country for release. Worse, Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed many of the men released have serious and violent criminal records.

According to U.S. Code, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts is a federal crime. The federal government has engaged in the transport of countless illegal immigrants.

Tensions boiled over last week when agents openly confronted Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz about illegal immigration and how leadership is handling the situation.

Under this administration, in the last year, weve got the highest fentanyl deaths in the history of our country, one agent said. How many [fentanyl seizures] are we missing because were focusing on these families?

For evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. Good men are doing nothing. Youre allowing illegal aliens to be dropped off in communities, another added.

Ortiz shot back by claiming he shows up every day to carry out the mission, but did not clearly define what that mission is or address concerns about Bidens border policy violating the law enforcement agencys official mission.

We continue to do the job and the mission that we signed up for. We all signed up for it, we all raised our hand, Ortiz said. Everyday I wake up and Im committed to this organization.

Meanwhile, calls for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro MayorkasAlejandro MayorkasVandals strike Chicago synagogue, businesses Few migrants escape Remain in Mexico, despite Biden-era reforms Senate Republicans press federal authorities for information on Texas synagogue hostage-taker MORE to step down are growing louder as he knowingly mandates the violation of U.S. immigration law.

He has lost the trust and confidence of the men and women of DHS law enforcement, former Acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said during a recent event at the Heritage Foundation. I continue to speak with our frontline agents, and their anger, exhaustion, and frustration with this secretary are apparent. He has not only destroyed the most secure border in our lifetimehe has repeatedly lied to the American people about the cascading impacts to our countrys public safety, health, and national security.

American taxpayers are owed a Border Patrol that lives up to its mission to protect the country not one that simply processes law breakers through a system that ultimately places them into American communities. Whats happening at the border and the behavior of so-called leadership is anything but honorable. Worse, implementing President Bidens open border agenda has forced agents to unwillingly violate their oaths and to disregard the law.

Pavlich is the editor for Townhall.com and a Fox News contributor.

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NOGALES, Mexico Mexican immigration agents are overwhelmed and undermanned by design, a Mexican migration official told Fox News in an exclusive interview.

"I just adapt to my president's decisions," said Nadir Ali Fernandez Villasana, the local representative of the National Migration Institute office in Nogales, Mexico. "But since this new administration took over, the new president in Mexico, it's austerity austerity in the republic."

Nadir Ali Fernandez Villasana, local representative of the National Migration Institute (INM) office in Nogales, Mexico. (Matt Leach/Fox News)

President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador started an austerity policy when he took office in 2018, aiming to combat corruption by reducing government size and government abuses of expenditures. He planned to use the recouped money for future development in the country.

Fernandez Villasana said the policy had a direct impact on resources at Mexicos northern border.

RISING CRIME IN DANGEROUS MEXICO BORDER TOWN LEAVES RESIDENTS FEELING INSECURE

The Sonora border district spans 389 miles and has six major ports of entry, including Nogales.

Fernandez Villasanas office, which is responsible for implementing migration policy across four sentry posts in the Nogales area plus 12 additional municipalities, had 40 agents to process people in the district. But under orders from the Obrador administration, that has been reduced to 15.

An unattended desk in the Nogales, Mexico, migration office.

"Theres a pretty big difference between the United States and Mexico," Fernandez Villasana said.

"In Mexico, we dont really consider migration to be illegal," he continued. "In the United States, people who have illegal migratory status are more chased than in Mexico. In Mexico, we try to make the migration orderly, safe.We dont see it as a crime, like a crime of migration."

Fernandez Villasana told Fox News that Mexican citizens deported from the U.S. get food and travel vouchers and are released to find their way home. Immigrants from other countries, like Guatemala and El Salvador, are shipped to a facility farther south to complete the deportation process if they don't have proper paperwork.

Because of the reduced workforce due to the austerity policy, Fernandez Villasana said he doesn't always have the staff "to take some illegals to the migratory station who are illegally in the country, and if I don't have a provisional holding place to keep these people, I have to let them go. That's a consequence."

The U.S./Mexico border wall in Nogales, Mexico.

Fernandez Villasana described an overwhelming workload for his 15 agents: eight-hour shifts doing administrative work at the ports of entry, then working overtime to cover highway check points.

But Fernandez Villasana told Fox News he thinks the austerity policy is working despite the difficulties his office faces.

"I feel like [Obrador] had to do this to have people who will be working better in his government," Fernandez Villasana said. "With the austerity of the republic, it decreased, but after that, things will be rearranged, and agents will be hired who will really be used."

Fernandez Villasana said illegal immigration is an issue for Nogales.

"I dont know how many people are trying to cross or coming to Nogales," he told Fox News. "But yes, its a problem for the city."

"Its a problem because we dont know about all the people who come over, which of them are criminals," he continued.

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Fernandez Villasana said the problems arent always visible because illegal migrants dont walk around freely. They hide from authorities because they dont want to be deported.

He said there are many stash houses where they hide.Fernandez Villasana said they don't go after the stash houses because "we belong to national security, but we dont carry firearms."

He said if they wanted to do an operation like checking a stash house, they would have to coordinate with the military or the police because it is very dangerous. Many of the stash houses belong to the cartels.

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To the editor:

An open letter to Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

We are so distressed about President Biden lying to us about the transport of illegal aliens into our communities. It is bad enough that it is happening at all, in the dark secret of night, mind you. Worse yet is the fact that this morning he, the president of our country, out and out stated that it is not happening. We have seen the films and heard the witnesses. How can he deny this? This is so reminiscent of dictatorships and communist countries I experienced in the past. This is the Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? comments of the worst of the worst governments.

Are you aware of all the fentanyl that is now in the United States because of our Democrat policy regarding the border management?

Are you aware of the high number of criminal illegal aliens that our president is allowing into the country? I am not even including the ones that entered undetected. The current accepted and dictated policies of our Democrat Party is to allow even illegals with criminal pasts to enter. We have read about this and heard about it enough to not be proud of the party any more.

Worse than all that I have pointed out here, and there is more, is the fact that we are aware of nothing our Virginia Senators have done to change any of it. This makes you complicit.

R. Dorien de Lusignan

Suffolk

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Albanian Altin Lleshi, aged 23, was found by police in the garage of a property on Wellcarr Road, Woodseats, Sheffield, where police discovered 71 cannabis plants, according to a Sheffield Crown Court hearing.

Prosecuting barrister Nigel Wray told the hearing on February 1: Entry was gained to the property and in it were found 71 small cannabis plants in the loft.

Mr Wray also pointed out there were powerful lights above the plants and a large hole had been made in the floor of the dining room allowing access to the garage.

Police recovered boxes and bags with cannabis growing equipment including bulbs and transformer packs, according to Mr Wray, and the garage was filled with similar equipment.

Mr Wray added that electric wiring had been installed extending upwards into the loft which was insulated.

Lleshi told police he had been detained and released by immigration authorities in November, 2021, and he was approached by Albanian men in London who brought him to Sheffield and brought cannabis plants for him to tend.

The defendant claimed he did not want to look after the plants but he was threatened and felt he had to do what he was told.

Lleshi, who has no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to producing the class B drug cannabis after the raid on January 11, this year.

Richard Adams, defending, said: I would submit there was a degree of exploitation here. The defendant being an Albanian national being in the UK for a relatively short period of time.

Mr Adams added that Lleshi had lost his support network and he had become reliant upon those who had recruited him.

Judge Michael Slater told Lleshi: The house had been converted to house an extensive and sophisticated cannabis growing operation. In the loft upstairs there were 71 young cannabis plants being grown under extensive lighting and a further electricity supply had been installed to facilitate that growing operation in the loft.

Judge Slater who sentenced Lleshi to 10 months of custody accepted the defendant had come to the UK illegally and was vulnerable but he did not accept he was under the complete control of those running the operation.

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WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., on Friday has voiced his concernregardingreportsof federal contractors flying illegal immigrants from the southern border to other points across the country late at night:

The recent reports of immigrants being driven and flown across the country in the dead of night are truly breathtaking,Wicker said. The crisis at our border has steadily worsened since President Biden took office and shows no signs of slowing down.

"Strong countries need strong borders," said Wicker. "The constant surge of migrants across our border threatens to undermine American national security and the rule of law. President Biden should act now to restore confidence in our border and re-institute the tough policies of the last administration.

Until the President acts to get this crisis under control," Wicker added. "Congress should cut off funding for this transportation in any future appropriation and investigate the wholesale failure of the Biden Administration to prevent this crisis.

The flights, which have been widely reported after months of surging illegal migration, regularly distribute illegal immigrants who are awaiting trial to communities across the country with little to no notice given to local authorities.

Wickercalled outthe Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions in August when a group of 90 migrants were dropped off at a bus station in Natchez, Miss.

Read more about Senator Wickers recent work on the border issuehere.

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