Arrests of Chinese immigrants illegally crossing US-Mexico border jumps 1,230% in January

[Novus ordu seclorum]

If there were any PDF would have a thread 2000 pages long.

For sure haha. That would be proof positive someone tried escaping the land of the homeless, drug dealers, and gangsters for La La Land.

 

[my2cents]

Chinese nationals captured after crossing into Texas illegally, paid smugglers $35K each

Three nationals were apprehended in Mission, Texas on Tuesday after each paying $35,000 to be smuggled illegally across the U.S.-Mexico border.

www.foxnews.com

Three Chinese nationals who each paid smugglers $35,000 were apprehended Tuesday after illegally crossing the southern border.

Fox News’ Bill Melugin was with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers when they witnessed the three Chinese nationals and a woman from Colombia cross illegally into Mission, Texas. The town lies near the southern tip of Texas, along the Rio Grande, and is a hotbed for illegal smuggling activity.

Texas DPS says an interpreter was required to communication with the Chinese nationals. (Fox News)

Texas DPS Trooper Lt. Chris Olivarez told Fox News the four individuals were brought across on a raft from Mexico.

The Chinese nationals told troopers, through an interpreter, that they each paid the smuggler $35,000 to cross illegally into the U.S. Smugglers typically charge Chinese nationals at a higher rate.

"This is an example of how much money is involved with human smuggling and how it strengthens transnational criminal organizations who exploit the vulnerabilities from illegal immigrants and expose the open border policies imposed by the federal government," Olivarez said.

Most agents charge $35,000 to $50000 for safe passage. They pay half and rest after they reach their destination.

 

[my2cents]

I don't how, but they just can, ask other Americans for confirmation.

They do by using their friends/family identity and stay long enough to have kids and start a family.

 

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Most agents charge $35,000 to $50000 for safe passage. They pay half and rest after they reach their destination.

I highly doubt smugglers accept payment using installment plans.

 

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Illegal immigration from China rises as immigrants cross by boat from Bahamas​

 

[my2cents]

I highly doubt smugglers accept payment using installment plans.

I know a case where a coworker was trying to get his family from Mexico but were apprehended and deported back. My coworker did not pay the balance that was due to the agent.

 

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Totals
so far 2023: 20,273
all of 2022: 2,176
all of 2021: 450
all of 2020: 1,768

 

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[nahtanbob]

If things are good in China why would people do this ?

 

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If things are good in China why would people do this ?

Especially in the above video with little kids...WTF?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

WOW! Another 4,042 Chinese arrested for jumping over the US border in September
That's 4042/30= 134/day

Totals
so far 2023: 24,314
all of 2022: 2,176
all of 2021: 450
all of 2020: 1,768

 

[beijingwalker]

China is not a country where criminals and con artists are torelated, that's why many who commited crimes in China try so hard to get out, US is like a paradise for criminals , so is Myamar, they are like a magnet to attract the evils of the humanity from everywhere across the world

Myanmar hands over 2,300 telecoms scam suspects to China​

 

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China's poverty is on display at the Mexico-US border in the form of thousands of Chinese migrants

Thousands of Chinese citizens are illegally entering the United States via the San Diego-Mexico border, seeking asylum like the citizens of impoverished Central African and war-torn West Asian nations, and pulling out a Chinese reality into the free world away from its glittering coastal cities...

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China's poverty is on display at the Mexico-US border in the form of thousands of Chinese migrants​

Thousands of Chinese citizens are illegally entering the United States via the San Diego-Mexico border, seeking asylum like the citizens of impoverished Central African and war-torn West Asian nations, and pulling out a Chinese reality into the free world away from its glittering coastal cities. Experts suggest that this may be a reflection of the dire straits faced by some sections of the Chinese economy.

Data from the US Customs and Border Protection shows that this year, until August 2023, a total of 20,273 Chinese migrant encounters occurred at the US-Mexico border, up from 2,176 a year earlier, a whopping increase of 831 per cent.

The number is likely to increase even further after the end of 2023 when annual data on migrant encounters is released.
The extraordinary increase in the number of Chinese migrant encounters confirms two things that many China watchers have been saying for a long time.
"One, the glittering Chinese coastal cities or even the exceptional hinterland city like Chongqing are not a measure of the wealth of China," said Sridharan Subramanyam, a China Watcher at Chennai Centre for China Studies.
"The poverty in China's rural areas, due to various reasons, is real," he told WION.
This August, the city of Zhuozhou in China's Hebei province was devastated by the worst floods that hit northern China in living memory.
Less than 50 km from Beijing, thousands of homes were damaged in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri.
Several blog posts about the Zhouzhou floods, which accused the authorities of deliberately flooding certain Chinese towns to control the water levels in Beijing, were censored from the messaging platform WeChat.
"The attempt by government officials is to prevent the leakage of facts (on poverty as well), as we saw in the recent Beijing floods," Subramanyam added.
The second aspect, the expert said, is that China's economic situation in the last two years has been very dire.

Faltering economy behind rising illegal Chinese migration to the US?​

To recover from the global economic consequences of the Covid pandemic, Chinese leader Xi Jinping introduced the 'dual circulation' policy to encourage domestic consumption after a fall in external demand for Chinese goods and services.
The policy has not paid off, Subramanyam pointed out.
"The Chinese do not have enough trust, at least in near terms, of their economy doing well and are saving even more than they already used to do so highly. The consumption rates as a result have been falling," he said.

What else is pushing China's poor into the US?​

The draconian ‘zero-Covid’ policy, coupled with the trade war with the US and the latter’s ban on semiconductor technology, are all adding to Xi Jinping's woes.
Moreover, Xi Jinping's flagship Belt and Road Initiative, a massive trade and infrastructure network that seeks to connect the country with the West in a model based on the ancient Silk Route, is "failing", Subramanyam said.

An analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia, Laos and Mongolia — shows that paying back the debt "is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue…and draining foreign currency reserves", Associated Press reported.

Behind this, AP said, "is China’s reluctance to forgive debt and its extreme secrecy about how much money it has loaned and on what terms, which has kept other major lenders from stepping in to help."
"China has not only been unable to generate much return on (BRI) investments. It also is in danger of losing the capital in several countries in the last three years," Subramanyam added.

Meanwhile, the slow but relentless de-risking leading to the relocation of industries from China to other countries is continuing to expand distress in the world's second-largest economy, pushing thousands of blue-collar workers to look for greener pastures elsewhere in the world.
All these may be acting as the 'push factor' in the migration of Chinese to the US. It's an irony of history that, centuries ago, they were among the first Asians to migrate in search of better lives, escaping the poverty at home, which led to the ubiquitous China Towns in several US cities.

 

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A record 4,261 Chinese nationals caught scaling the US/Mexican border fence in October.
That's compared to only 430 in October 2022.

 

[Vikramaditya-I]

^^ That is a stark contrast to PDF Chinese who shit on the US. Why?