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Biden Encourages Massive Illegal Immigration and Tries To Hide It With Secret Flights – Heritage.org

The Biden administration doesnt want media attention on illegal immigration, its open border policies, or the results of those policies. How do we know? A security officer just said so, in anexplosive video of secretive, dark-of-night flightstransporting illegal immigrants to various points throughout the U.S.

This video merits coast-to-coast media coverage, not just to expose the administrations stealth operations that flout the laws, but to encourage Americans and leaders at all levels of government to demand that the administration start protecting our border, our country, and our citizens.

The list of lies administration officials have told regarding their handling of illegal immigration is extensive and still growing. How many times have they refused to call the historic numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border a crisis or implausibly claimed the border is closed?

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas grossly pushed the false racist narrative that Border Patrol agents on horseback mistreated migrants attempting to illegally enter during the Del Rio International Bridge episode. Bidens Federal Aviation Administration made up a ridiculous drone ban, prohibitingFox News from showing any more footageof the thousands of mostly Haitian illegal immigrants amassing under that bridge. (The FAA rescinded the ban after reporter Bill Melugin continued filming the Del Rio crisis from a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter.)

Over the last several months, night flights of illegal migrants have been periodically reported in places such as Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In each instance, state and local officials received no notice they were coming, let alone given an option to refuse them admission. The administration has no apparent concern with how these air lifts may burden local officials with additional costs and facilities capacity in areas such as education, housing, healthcare and law enforcement.

When asked why the administration was flying illegal immigrants in the middle of the night, press secretary Jen Psaki belittled the reporter and then lied. She claimed that the flights were resettling unaccompanied children. Yet videos of these surreptitious flights clearly show full grown adults emerging from the planes. At best, this is lying by omission.

Videos posted this week reveal more lies by the Administration. They show streams of adult males being released inBrownsville and San Antonio, Texas. This reportedly has been occurring since last spring. Some are known to have criminal records, including drunk driving, assault, and drug possession. Yet Biden officials have stated that only family units and unaccompanied alien children are being release, not single adults.

By law, Mexican males are usually subject to Expedited Removal to quickly return them over the border. If they are from a non-contiguous country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement usually detains them because they are not subject to the arbitrary 20-day Flores detention rule applied to families and unaccompanied children.

Releasing single adult malesis a game ender for trying to enforce immigration law. Releasing this population means all demographics of illegal immigrants are now being released whether single or a family, young or old. By failing to detain or remove single adult males, the Administration has removed the last disincentive to illegal immigration. Smugglers will market this and enrich themselves even beyond the billions theyve already made since Biden took office.

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Single adult males are the easiest group for terrorists to hide among as large numbers are released into the U.S. Historically, single adult males made up the largest number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Now, we can expect those numbers to balloon once again.

The Biden administration calls their immigration approach fair, orderly, and humane. But if they are so proud of their policies and their practice of processing so many non-citizens into the U.S., why do it under the darkness of night? And why lie about it?

This Administration tells us not to believe our lying eyes. Americans need to open their eyes, watch the video, and demand that Washington secure our borders NOW.

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Pavlich: The tattered mission of Border Patrol | TheHill – The Hill

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

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

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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.

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

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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