Mexican cartels use immigrants to divert agents from drug smuggling: Border Patrol chief

The head of the U.S. Border Patrol is frustrated that his federal law enforcement agents have been pulled from their posts guarding against drugs like fentanyl and dangerous criminals to process the tens of thousands of immigrants who poured across the border last week.

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said it is not the job of the 19,000 Border Patrol agents nationwide to intake immigrants who cross the border illegally, but that organized crime groups in Mexico have done so to keep agents out of the field.

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