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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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Get immigration policy straight - The Suffolk News-Herald - Suffolk News-Herald

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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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Mexicos migration system is overwhelmed and undermanned, but by design says official - Fox News

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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An Illegal immigrant has been jailed after he was caught overseeing a cannabis harvest at a Sheffield house - The Star

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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Wicker speaks on illegal immigration surge and overnight immigrant flights - Clarksdale Press Register

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke repeatedly about battling the root causes of record-breaking illegal immigration during a Thursday trip to Honduras but Harris said that her efforts are unlikely to alleviate the US-Mexico border crisis overnight.

Harris made a point of mentioning migration after critics chided her for not focusing more on the issue since President Biden appointed her last year to lead his administrations outreach to Mexico and Central America.

The number of illegal border-crossing arrests surged since Harris took on the role. In fiscal 2021, which ended in September, there were more than 1.7 million arrests at the border the most since at least 1986.

The root causes strategy has always been clear and we have been clear. The work we need to do is going to be work that will manifest over a long period of time. Hopefully not too long, but certainly not overnight, Harris told reporters during the trip to attend Honduran President Xiomara Castros inauguration.

The problems that we need to address are problems that did not occur overnight and the solutions if theyre going to have any impact will not occur overnight.

Thousands of Hondurans cheered during Harris arrival at a packed sports stadium for Castros inauguration. She shared a stage with Spanish King Felipe VI, Taiwanese Vice President William Lai and the leaders of several neighboring countries.

Harris later held a bilateral meeting with Castro where she brought up efforts to reduce causes of migration such as poverty and corruption.

A pool report said journalists were allowed to attend just six minutes of the Harris-Castro meeting, during which Harris also talked about COVID-19 aid.

You spoke about this in your inaugural address, in terms of the importance of uplifting the economy and what that means to families, what that means in terms of the creation of jobs and what that means on the issue of migration, Harris told Castro.

I particularly appreciated your point, which you and I have discussed before, which is most people dont want to leave home. They dont want to leave the place where they worship, their church, their grandmother. And if they leave it is usually because they are either fleeing harm, or they simply cannot satisfy their basic needs or their familys needs if they stay, Harris said.

Therefore, the area of cooperation and work that we will do together on economic prosperity will be pivotal to that issue, in particular irregular migration. We have also discussed, and you discussed at length in your inaugural speech, the importance of combating corruption.

A readout of the meeting from Harris office said she additionally emphasized that combating corruption and impunity remains at the center of our commitment to address the root causes of migration.

That release also said that Harris stressed the importance the U.S. places on combating sexual, gender-based and domestic violence and how this work is a core pillar of the U.S Strategy for Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America.

Critics have accused Harris of largely shirking her duties as Bidens point person on reducing illegal immigration and Republicans generally urge the Biden administration to adopt stricter border policies to deter people from illegally crossing the border.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) tweeted, VP Kamala Harris is spending the day in Tegucigalpa celebrating the inauguration of an anti-Semitic, self-described socialist president in Honduras. Her time would be better spent working around the clock to strengthen our southern border. After all, she is the border czar.

Harris last year visited Guatemala and Mexico, but the June trip was overshadowed by her difficulty answering reporters questions about why she hadnt visited the US-Mexico border. Harrisvisited theborder shortly after that trip.

The VP has taken heat from members of both parties on her work addressing migration. Rep. Henry Cuellar(D-Texas) recently told the New York Times that hes given up on trying to work with Harris.

I say this very respectfully to her: I moved on, Cuellar said. She was tasked with that job, it doesnt look like shes very interested in this, so we are going to move on to other folks that work on this issue.

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Kamala Harris says her anti-illegal immigration efforts won't bear fruit 'overnight' - New York Post