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Flouting a recent court ruling, Border Patrol agents in Brownsville, Texas, are releasing busloads of Chinese nationals into the U.S. amid a massive surge of migrants from the communistcountry.

Officials say the southern border has seen a more than 900 percent increase in Chinese nationals since last year. There were 1,368 encounters of Chinese migrants in February versus just 55 during February2022.

In fiscal year 2021, there were 450 encounters of Chinese nationals at the border; in fiscal year 2022, there were 1,176. Since October just five months into this fiscal year the number has ballooned to4,366.

As the Brownsville busing program shows, encounters do not necessarily result in deportation. Quite the opposite,actually.

Chinese migrants, some of whom entered the Americas through Ecuador, reportedly are paying cartels $35,000 and up to cross into the U.S. One New York-bound migrant said he left China because of his countrys strict COVID-19policies.

Gordon Chang, author of several books critical of the Beijing government, suspects more sinister motives in this high-end migration. We have to assume that the Chinese regime is taking advantage of the situation by smuggling in their agents, hesays.

Before being loaded onto buses in Brownsville, the Chinese nationals were handed Notices to Appear (NTAs) in immigration court at some future date. With dockets bulging, such cases can take four to seven years to resolve, assuming the noticed aliens care to showup.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sources said the migrants were released because there are so many crossing and no space to housethem.

But the busing of these Chinese nationals appears to directly violate a recent federal court ruling, and U.S. immigration law, requiring detention of illegal aliens. Justice Department lawyers did not contest District Judge T. Kent Wetherells ruling, but the Brownsville incident shows how wholesale releases go on asusual.

An hour northwest of Brownsville, in McAllen, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz contradicted Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by admitting the obvious last week. He testified at a congressional committee field hearing that the U.S. does not haveoperational controlof its southernborder.

Ortiz also openly disagreed with the Biden administration halting border wall construction, and asserted that more security infrastructure is needed to help Border Patrol agents do theirjob.

That job does not involve summarily shipping illegal Chinese aliens into the interior of this country with flimsy slips of paper that may never see the light ofday.

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Border Patrol Buses In Americas Latest Load of Chinese Imports - Federation for American Immigration Reform

The security of our homeland is under constant threat by the crisis at the southern border, heightened by our broken immigration system, and exacerbated by the flow of illicit narcotics into our communities.

First and foremost, we must regain operational control of our border. Since January 2021, more than 4.6 million individuals have been apprehended attempting to illegally enter the United States through the southern border. America is a nation of immigrants, but we are a beacon of hope throughout the world because we respect and enforce the rule of law.

I regularly visit the southern border to see the situation on the ground firsthand, meet with border patrol officials and community leaders in the impacted regions, and understand what resources are needed to combat this crisis.

In 1996 I authored the legislation which later became the E-Verify program, the only tool available for employers to voluntarily check the legal status of newly hired employees. Over the years, I have worked steadily to expand E-Verify and make It mandatory for all employers in the U.S. On January 12, 2023, I reintroduced the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 319) which would do just that and help cut off the job magnet that draws people here illegally.

I also believe that to truly secure our homeland, we must stop the flow of illicit narcotics into our communities. Fentanyl, in particular, is especially deadly and is being trafficked across our southern border every day. Riverside County loses more than one person a day, on average, from a fentanyl-related poisoning. This is why I helped launch and am a co-chair of the Bipartisan Fentanyl Prevention Caucus which works to educate the community on the dangers of fentanyl, understand the pipelines that bring it into the United States, and stop its proliferation into our neighborhoods.

My record on border security, ensuring a legal workforce, and rejecting amnesty is second to none in Congress and I will continue to fight for the integrity of our borders and the security of our homeland as your Representative in Congress. Below are some of the initiatives I support in the 118th Congress to secure our borders and stop illegal immigration:

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers his State of the State address

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has positioned himself as the architect of a new conservative vision for the nation during his annual State of the State address. (March 7)

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A spike in illegal immigration and victory in a key lawsuithas given Gov. Ron DeSantis ammunition in support of his hardline stance on immigration policies.

Only the southwest border states of Texas, Arizona, California and New Mexico have seen more undocumented immigrants than Florida so far this fiscal year, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Florida ranks just ahead of New York and well ahead of most other states nationwide, with a total of 57,816 contacts with those who have entered the country illegally between October and February. That is more than the number of contacts made in the state during the entire 2022 and 2021 fiscal years combined.

Of those, a total of 5,005 individuals have been apprehended.

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Immigration from four countries has fueled the growing trend, with authorities making contact with 19,442 Venezuelan nationals, 12,840 Cuban nationals, 6,344 Haitian nationals, and 4,201 Ukrainian nationals in Florida between October and February.

However, Cuban nationals account for the bulk of undocumented immigrants who were detained, accounting for 4,398 of the total 5,005 apprehensions this year. Only 349 Haitians were apprehended, and zero Ukrainians and Venezuelans.

On March 8, a federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump issued a 109-page final order ruling in Floridas favor in a lawsuit against the United States, placing the blame on federal Parole and Alternative to Detention policies for enticing foreign nationals into crossing into the United States illegally under the belief they would eventually be released into the country.

Florida argued that over 100,000 of those immigrants have been released into the state, causing a rise in the cost of public services, citing increases in the amount of undocumented children who attend public schools and costs of other services such as incarceration, unemployment benefits, and emergency Medicaid.

For the most part, the Court finds in favor of Florida because, as detailed below, the evidence establishes that Defendants have effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country by prioritizing 'alternatives to detention' over actual detention and by releasing more than a million aliens into the country on 'parole' without even initiating removal proceedings, Judge Thomas Kent Wetherell of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Florida wrote in the final order.

DeSantis touted Floridas legal victory against the Biden Administration during a recent stop in Iowa, where he also trumpeted state-level efforts to bolster enforcement.

When I became governor, we finally banned sanctuary cities in the state of Florida, we recently sued Biden over his catch and release policy and guess what, this week a federal judge in the Florida Panhandle ruled that his catch and release policy is illegal and unconstitutional. So they are going to have to change something, DeSantis said.

On March 9 the Biden administration issued a statement outlining new efforts to bolster border security while also enhancing legal pathways.

"Over the past two years, the Biden-Harris Administration has secured more resources for border security than any of the presidents who preceded him, deployed the most agents ever more than 23,000 to address the situation at the border, prevented record levels of illicit fentanyl from entering our country, and brought together world leaders on a framework to deal with changing migration patterns," his administration said in the media release.

"The Administration has also put in place new measures to enhance security at the border and reduce the number of individuals crossing unlawfully between ports of entry while expanding and expediting legal pathways for orderly migration. The president also outlined new consequences for those who fail to use these new legal pathways."

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Illegal immigration in Florida: A by-the-numbers look at a surge - Tallahassee Democrat

Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (WGME)

LISBON FALLS (WGME) - A hit-and-run being investigated by Lisbon police led to a month-long operation that ended Tuesday night with 17 undocumented migrants being removed from aLisbon Falls home.

Lisbon Police Chief Ryan McGee says in February, their station responded to a hit-and-run crash in Lisbon Falls.

With that investigation, police say they learned that those involved in the hit-and-run may have been in the United States illegally.

Police reached out to Border Patrol and figured out the suspects were connected to 93 Main Street in Lisbon Falls.

Lisbon police arrested 17 illegal and undocumented immigrants at 93 Main Street in Lisbon Falls. (WGME){p}{/p}

The investigation led to a house in Lisbon Falls where 17 undocumented non-citizens were discovered Tuesday night.

The agents say they determined the undocumented non-citizens worked for a Massachusetts-based company. The company rented the house to provide a residence for the migrants.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (US Border Patrol Houlton Sector)

Border Patrol says the subjects, from Nicaragua and Guatemala, add to a growing trend of undocumented non-citizens transiting in and out of Maine.

Border Patrol officers took the undocumented non-citizens to Rangeleyfor processing.

McGee says before the Androscoggin County Sheriffs Office and the Oxford County Sheriffs Office showed up with transport vans, the arrested individuals were sat on a town bus to wait and stay warm.

"They were cooperative, everything went very peacefully," McGee said.

Lisbon Police arrested 17 illegal and undocumented immigrants at 93 Main Street in Lisbon Falls. (WGME){p}{/p}

During processing, Border Patrol says two of the subjects from Guatemala were found to have re-entered the United States after being previously removed. Reentering the United States after removal is a felony crime, punishable by a fine and not more than two years of prison.

Four undocumented non-citizens were found to have entered the United States illegally along the southwest border and were already in removal proceedings. Those subjects were released to await immigration proceedings.

The other subjects from Nicaragua and Guatemala were entered into removal proceedings, according to Border Patrol.

This incident remains under investigation.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 17 undocumented non-citizens from a single home in Lisbon Falls on Tuesday. (US Border Patrol Houlton Sector)

CBS13 spoke with two people who say they live at the address and own a construction company.

They didn't want to go on camera but said the people taken into custody were hard workers.

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17 undocumented migrants removed from home in Lisbon Falls - WGME

Police in Lisbon, Maine, said they arrested 17 undocumented immigrants on Tuesday following an investigation involving the U.S. Border Patrol.

Lisbon police said they made the arrests around 8 p.m. Tuesday at an address on Maine Street in Lisbon Falls. The arrested individuals are from Guatemala and Nicaragua, police said.

The U.S. Border Patrol said in a statement that the building they raided was being used as part of an "elaborate human smuggling scheme." They became aware of the operation as a result of a hit-and-run crash in Lisbon on Tuesday.

The undocumented immigrants were working for a Massachusetts-based company that had rented the house to provide them with a residence. No information was released about the company's name or whether they might face any penalties.

We are seeing a sharp increase in the flow of illegal labor in and out of Maine, William J. Maddocks, chief patrol agent with the U.S. Border Patrol in Maine, said in a statement. Housing 17 people in one house is unsafe and degrading. The exploitation of the undocumented population will continue as long as there is no consequence. We will do all we can to remove the incentives that drive such exploitation, including the continued issuance of civil penalties, fines, and seeking federal criminal prosecution through the U.S. Attorneys office for every criminal law violation we encounter.

Androscoggin County and the Oxford County sheriffs assisted in transporting the 17 people to detention centers in Rangeley for processing. Two of the subjects were found to have re-entered the U.S. after having previously been removed. Four others were found to have entered the U.S. illegally along the southwest border and were released to await immigration proceedings. The other subjects were entered into removal proceedings.

The incident remains under investigation, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

Federal authorities added 25 border patrol agents at the northeastern U.S. border with Quebec earlier this month in response to a recent spike in illegal crossings.

Statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that agents in the sector apprehended 1,513 illegal border crossers between Oct. 1, 2022 through Jan. 31, 2023, up from 160 in the same period the year before. But the total number apprehended along the entire northern border this fiscal year, 2,227, is a small fraction of those apprehended along the U.S.-Mexican border during that same period, 762,383.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Lisbon Maine Undocumented Immigrant Arrests - NECN