Staggering 22,187 Chinese Nationals Arrested Attempting to Cross U.S. Southern Border
Oct 30, 2023
A massive 22,187 Chinese nationals were arrested crossing the U.S. southern
border between January and the end of September, representing an almost thirteen-fold increase on the same period last year. The number of Chinese crossings appears to be accelerating, with arrests in September up by 70 percent compared to August, for a total of over 4,000.
Many of the Chinese illegals, who are overwhelmingly lone adults,
begin their journey in Ecuador, which allows visa-free travel for Chinese nationals. From there, they join migrants of many other nationalities for the long march north through the Darien Gap, a roadless land route from South America to North America, covered in thick rainforest.
While fewer than 400 Chinese nationals are recorded as having made the arduous trek in over a decade from 2010 to 2021, the figure rose to 2,005 in 2022. So far in 2023, officials in Panama say they have registered 15,567 Chinese slogging through the Gap.
While a small fraction of the migrants entering the United States under Joe Biden’s lax border regime overall, Chinese illegals are suspected by many to represent a unique security threat, given the possibility of
spies and other Chinese Communist Party (
CCP) agents among their ranks, and the unusually strong hold the CCP regime is able to exercise over its expatriates abroad.
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