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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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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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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

Social media is a term that is used for the websites that are used for communication, content-sharing and interaction via the internet. Yahoos Geocities was the earliest of its kind, it was developed in 1995. Geocities was first known as BHI, abbreviated for Beverly Hills Internet. Which was just a web directory (also called link directory) which was organized into six-neighborhoods; Hollywood, Sunset Strip, Wall Street, Colosseum, West Hollywood and Rodeo Drive. The company decided to give its user the abilities to create free homepages in these six neighborhoods. Theoretically, Geocities created a virtual world of its own, which later evolved into the social media world we have today.

But in 2004, the world of social media stepped into a new era when a group of Harvard students invented Facebook, which was supposed to be a web directory for Harvard students only. But the membership expanded to other universities in the USA to 2006, when anyone who is above the age of 13 can register themselves up on Facebook. Facebook completely revamped the social media space. It went from being a university dating site to what we have today a multi-purpose social networking platform that allows user to communicate and even play games.

Today, Meta formerly known as Facebook developed by Mark Zuckerberg dominates the world in terms of users, with being the top social media website/application in 154 countries. According to Facebook, it is home to almost 1.8 billion monthly users and growing. According to a blog on Weforum if Facebook, was a country it would be even bigger than China. However, Facebooks presence in Asia is weaker as compared to the other continents even though Asia has 1.2 billion active users/month which is almost half of the amount of its active users. It is than followed by Europe with almost 0.413 billion active user and North America in the third with almost 0.2 billion active users per month.

According to Vincos, the world map in terms of social media dominance is quite diverse, first being the former territories of USSR which is dominated by VKontakte of Pavel Durov who is also the founder of instant messaging app called Telegram and Megafon. The Russian network, VK has almost 14 million active mobile users according the latest observation. VK is followed up by Odnoklassniki which is also owned by the Mail.ru group with almost 200 million registered users.

The second block of the social media belongs to China. The region is dominated by WeChat, which is a multi-purpose social media and instant messaging app developed by Tencent. WeChat brings almost 1.2 billion active users per month into the contest. This government owned app not only allows chatting but also gaming on its platform. Since Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are all blocked in China. QZone, which is the Chinese version of Facebook is the second most used social media website. Other than that, Asia holds a lot more surprises such as LinkedIn is the second most used social network in India, Twitter is the most used social media network in Japan. Vietnam and Latvia have their own local network called Draugiem and Zing.

As for Africa, Meta platform Incs Instagram takes the lead with almost 600 million monthly users, it is the second most used social media service in almost 37 countries that includes Indonesia, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and even Iran, where its hard to use Facebook due to the censorship by the Persian government.

Moreover, Australia and Canadas second most used social media network is neither Instagram nor Twitter like rest of the world but its Reddit.

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Here's How The Social Media Dominance Looks Like Around The World Map - Digital Information World

For years, Meta has tried to become less dependent on Apple, which holds the key to iPhone users, and to shift away from social networking controversies involving misinformation and hate speech. So in October, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that he planned for his company to take a new path toward the metaverse. He renamed Facebook as Meta. Since then, the company has embarked on a sweeping internal transformation, restructuring itself and pushing employees to join teams working on augmented reality and virtual reality.

Metas spending is unlikely to subside anytime soon, especially as it is in a full-throttled race against other technology giants to claim ground in the theoretical metaverse. Last month, when Microsoft said it was buying the video game maker Activision Blizzard for nearly $70 billion, the software maker cited the deal as a building block for the metaverse, even though Activision does not produce virtual reality games. Google has been working on metaverse-related technology for years, and Apple has its own devices in the works.

At the same time, Metas wildly profitable businesses are in a period of change. Sheryl Sandberg, Metas chief operating officer, said on the call with investors Wednesday that Instagram was heavily promoting a video product called Reels, which competes with TikTok. While Reels is the biggest contributor to Instagrams growth, it does not make as much money from ads as other Instagram products like Stories and the main photo feed.

In the call, Mr. Zuckerberg also pointed to the difficulties of competing with TikTok, which has grown increasingly popular with younger audiences. David Wehner, Metas chief financial officer, added that Apples iOS changes buoyed the ad business of Google, which is not dependent on Apple for advertising data.

The origins. The word metaverse describes a fully realized digital worldthat exists beyond the one in which we live. It was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, andthe concept was further explored byErnest Clinein hisnovel Ready Player One.

The future. Many people in tech believe the metaverse will herald an era in whichour virtual lives will play as important a role as our physical realities. Some experts warn that it could still turn out to be a fad or even dangerous.

Alphabet, Googles parent company, on Tuesday reported a 36 percent increase in profit and a 32 percent jump in revenue in the last three months of 2021 from a year earlier.

Still, the number of users for Metas social networking apps continued to rise. The monthly active users of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps increased 9 percent, to 3.59 billion, in the quarter from a year earlier, the company said. The company added that more than one billion users interact with business accounts using services such as WhatsApp and Messenger every week.

Yet the main Facebook app appeared to hit a ceiling in at least some markets; the app lost one million users globally for the first time in the quarter, down from the prior quarter.

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Meta Spent $10 billion on the Metaverse in 2021, Dragging Down Profit - The New York Times