President Biden walks with Jason Owens, chief of U.S. Border Patrol, as he visits the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, on February 29. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
"If there's no motivation to do it the right way -- and the right way, it is causing people to have to wait a little bit longer -- well naturally, they're going to choose to come between the ports of entry," Owens also told CBS News. "We need to take that off the table and make sure everybody's coming through the front door."
This week, the Supreme Court briefly allowed Texas’ anti-illegal immigration law, which allows police to arrest illegal immigrants, to go into effect despite a legal challenge from the Biden administration. The case was kicked back down to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which then blocked the law again hours later as arguments proceed on the merits.
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Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told Fox News Digital that all migrants in the El Paso incident have now been apprehended. (James Breeden for New York Post / Mega)
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"We have worked hand in hand with that agency for as long as I've been around, and I don't see that ever stopping," he added. "They have always been very good at complementing our mission. They back us up when we're out in the field, and we do for them as well. So, whatever the laws are that they're going to be enforcing, our mission remains constant. Their mission remains constant."
Fox News’ Adam Shaw, Bill Melugin and Michael Lee contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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