The border is overrun with illegal immigrants and drugs and the government is taking extreme actions.

From Breitbart. With no signs of slowing, the latest migrant surge into Texas’ busiest border sector forced the agency to suspend operations at highway checkpoints. Nearly all Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector have been redirected from border enforcement duties to focus on processing, transporting, and providing humanitarian care for more than 7,000 migrants in custody at local facilities and at a temporary outdoor staging site near Eagle Pass, according to a source within CBP.

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The source says the order to shut the checkpoints … came as more than 5,000 migrants are in local detention facilities designed to hold less than 2,000 migrants. In addition, more than 2,000 migrants are being temporarily detained below the Camino Real International Bridge II in the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas. Nearby, the city’s only other port of entry serving Piedras Negras and Eagle Pass remains shut due to the migrant surge.

The source, not authorized to speak to the media, says 32,000 migrants crossed into the United States, mostly near Eagle Pass, since the beginning of December. The sector is the second busiest crossing point along the nation’s southwest border. The area is second to the Tucson Border Patrol Sector, which has seen 40,000 crossings this month. … …

Migrant crossings have remained at roughly 2,000 per day within the Del Rio Sector. …

Meanwhile, drugs continue to flow across the border. Officers found 10 million dollars worth of illegal drugs in vats of jalapeno paste last week in California. ABC News reports that the CBP cannot handle the overwhelming flow of illegal immigrants and drugs:

While immigration policy and fentanyl trafficking are distinct, the two issues often overlap because a significant share of drugs are coming through legal crossings in the hands of U.S. citizens — at the same time that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) says it continues to operate under a resource strain amid historically high levels of illegal migration.

This week, because of an influx of migrants, CBP was forced to shut down and limit traffic at border crossings in Texas and Arizona as part of larger personnel adjustments along the southwest border. . . .

Trafficking of fentanyl appears to largely occur at the southwest border, where 90% of the drug seized by CBP is found. Over the past year, the agency seized 850% more fentanyl compared to 2019 and seized nearly twice as much fentanyl in fiscal year 2023 compared to the previous year, according to data from the agency.

As the country keeps grappling with what federal health officials call an overdose epidemic, stopping fentanyl has become a political issue as well. . . .

Authorities say Mexican drug labs are responsible for taking Chinese precursor chemicals and turning them into deadly fentanyl product. Fake pills resembling real prescription drugs like oxycodone are part of the scourge that has made its way into “every community,” as one federal official put it.

Fentanyl overdoses have become a sweeping problem in the country and, Miller [acting CBP commissioner, Troy Miller] said, a sweeping solution is needed.

“I’ve said I’ve said it 100 times: We can’t interdict our way out of this,” he said, referring to authorities simply seizing the drug off the street. “This is something that’s a societal issue that we all need to tackle together.”

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