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Under Patel, FBI heightens focus on violent crime, illegal immigration. Other threats abound, too

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The FBI under the leadership of Director Kash Patel has made fighting violent crime and illegal immigration top priorities.

A revised FBI priority list on its website places “Crush Violent Crime” at the top.

Patel has said he wants to “get back to the basics.” His deputy, Dan Bongino , says the FBI is returning to its roots..

The FBI 's new priorities include "Crush Violent Crime" and "Defend the Homeland" Counterterrorism has remained a constant top priority for the FBI since the 9/11 attacks.

Director Wray said he was hard-pressed to think of a time when the FBI was facing so many elevated threats at once.

The FBI reassign some agents focused on domestic terrorism to a new task force set up to investigate the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and its aftermath.

A task force tracking foreign influence, like Russia ’s attempts to interfere in American democracy, was disbanded.

A retired FBI supervisor says fentanyl and drug cartels are not “existential” threats in the way Russia and China are.