In November alone, Border Patrol reported 4,767 encounters with Chinese migrants, a figure that surpasses the annual total of Chinese migrants apprehended at the southern border from 2007 to 2019.
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green raised concerns in June about the potential ties of some Chinese migrants to the Chinese Communist Party and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). He stated, “In terms of the verification that the individuals released into the United States have ties to the PLA came from a sector chief and I’ll leave it with that at this point. We have a classified briefing coming up in the very near future.”
The CBP data also shows a steady increase in the number of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border illegally over the past few years. In fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol recorded 24,000 encounters, compared to 1,970 in fiscal year 2022 and 323 in fiscal year 2021.
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China expert Gordon Chang offered some insight into this trend, attributing it to widespread pessimism in China, particularly among the younger generation. He told 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.”
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Chang also expressed concerns about the potential security risks posed by the surge in Chinese migrants. He 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.”
