‘These Numbers Are Staggering’: Chinese Migrants Continue To Surge Across Southern

[Achilles]

‘These Numbers Are Staggering’: Chinese Migrants Continue To Surge Across Southern Border

Jennie Taer on May 22, 2023

• Border Patrol agents are increasingly seeing Chinese migrants crossing the southern border, according to the latest federal data.
  
• Migrants from China pay smugglers sometimes tens of thousands of dollars to go to the U.S., according to Border Patrol sources who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
  
• “Right now in China there’s extreme pessimism, especially among people in their 20s about the future of their country, so it’s understandable that they’re leaving and they’re trying to get into the United States. And, you know, these are people who are relatively middle class, so it shows you the problems in Chinese society are severe,” China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF.

The influx of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border continued through April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data.

Border Patrol encountered 3,182 migrants from China at the U.S.-Mexico border in April alone, according to CBP data. Chinese migrants often pay hefty smuggling fees to reach the U.S., where they have been found with large sums of U.S. currency, according to Border Patrol agents who recently spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

In total, Border Patrol has encountered 9,711 Chinese migrants at the southern border between October 2022 and April, marking an already roughly 393% increase compared to all of fiscal year 2022.

Migrants from Latin America pay an average of roughly $4,000 each to smugglers, according to a July report from The New York Times.

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Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow, and a member of its advisory board, believes many young Chinese migrants are fleeing China due to a lack of hope for their future in the country, he told the DCNF.

“Right now in China there’s extreme pessimism, especially among people in their 20s about the future of their country, so it’s understandable that they’re leaving and they’re trying to get into the United States. And, you know, these are people who are relatively middle class, so it shows you the problems in Chinese society are severe. And that to me, suggests that this is going to get worse because these numbers are staggering.”

Most of the Chinese migrants encountered by Border Patrol so far in fiscal year 2023 are single adults, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. Legitimate asylum claims must be based on persecution due to religious affiliation, membership in a social group, race, nationality and political party affiliation.

It’s also possible that some Chinese migrants are nefarious actors, Chang said.

“When I first saw that the surge in Chinese migrants, that’s the thought that came to my mind that these are either Ministry of State Security agents or Chinese military, who are coming to this country to commit acts of sabotage against the US,” Chang said.

CBP sent a memo to agency officials in March, warning of a surge in Chinese migrants, according to a copy of the document that the DCNF exclusively obtained.

“Chinese national apprehensions will continue to rise across the SWB [Southwest border], primarily in Yuma and the Rio Grande Sector, as more Chinese nationals successfully reach the United States to request asylum and information about routes becomes more accessible,” the document stated.

The document also detailed a smuggling route in which a group of Chinese migrants traveled to Istanbul, where they obtained Mexican visas, flew to Mexico City pretending to be couples and then split off to get to border towns. Migrants are fleeing China due to religious persecution against Christians, the document stated.

“They don’t say much, just that they left China to escape communism,” a Border Patrol agent who has apprehended some of the Chinese migrants at the southern border told the DCNF.

“They get interviewed by intel and released,” the agent said.

Chinese migrants are known to pay smugglers between $15,000 and $30,000 to make the journey, a second Border Patrol agent stationed along the southern border, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the leaked document, previously told the DCNF.

“[The] majority of them have thousands and thousands of U.S. dollars,” the agent said. “FBI has been called down several times now.”

“The cartels know and are charging them out the ass what their normal rates are,” the agent added.

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[consteacher1]

red dawn is already underway and there will be no parachutes 'cause they're just walking into the country unhindered by the bydim administration. when they attack, and they will, it may be too late to do much about it. get ready. prep and pray the end has arrived.

[dmatic]

Maybe some are simply seeking "freedom"? Or, maybe, they just want to help us pay off the ever increasing debt that is enslaving us?

[Ivan88]

That is a good one dmatic: "maybe, they just want to help us pay off the ever increasing debt that is enslaving us?"

Part of what is really happening is:
Isaiah 5:
The Creator of all life and love planted a vineyard, built walls and watchtowers, fertilized and watered the vines, but all they produced was bitter fruit.
So He broke down the watch towers, hedges and walls;
And then He raised a flag to other nations to come plunder the garden, and they did and no one could stop them. America qualifies as that vineyard.

[maccabee17]

The family and I went on a trip last weekend from Idaho to grants pass Oregon. We counted 6 busses, Greyhound size, white, no company name on them. I told my wife they looked the ones I have seen in stories about illegal immigrants being moved around the country. So we started keeping track. We finally came upon another one stopped in Madras Oregon. The large group surrounding the bus was all military age men, not one female. So the total was 7 busses all the same heading north through eastern Oregon and Washington. I have heard they have been depositing bus loads of illegals in Spokane maybe that's where they were headed.

[Idaho Bullwinkle]

With the amount of money given to the smugglers, they could just get a first class ticket to Mexico rather than walk through the jungle over Darian Gap
I find it telling when those that allegedly tramp through the jungle are clean, well fed and military aged males without dependents.
We will be untrained and out gunned when the "Go" signal is given to them.
The couch potato Patriots with their cell phones in their faces do not stand a snowball chance in hell of protecting their homes.

[consteacher1]

this couch potato will hopefully take a few with me when the left of bang ballon goes up. I know i am not as well trained as many of you but I can follow instructions: rack round, point gun, pull trigger and repeat as necessary. prep and pray, the end has arrived.

[dmatic]

this couch potato will hopefully take a few with me when the left of bang ballon goes up. I know i am not as well trained as many of you but I can follow instructions: rack round, point gun, pull trigger and repeat as necessary. prep and pray, the end has arrived.

I'd be careful who you're aiming at, brother. Fighting God's army may be a no-win situation. Just sayin'....Some think Americz is Mystery babylon, which is being judged and will fall, in order for God's kingdom to come. It is evident that God's enemies ARE the 'officials' of this beloved, innocent-blood-spilled land.

[consteacher1]

agreed! tough to tell emeny from friend when all hell breaks. just want to protect me and mine and maybe help out a neighbor. get your houses in order, times nearly up. prep and pray, t he end has arrived.

[dmatic]

Agree! Thanks for being a 'voice in the wilderness'!