In January 2021, the first month of the Biden-Harris administration, exactly six Chinese nationals were arrested at the border.
Last month, July 2024, that number had shot up to 1,953, which brought the year’s total to 35,300, a huge increase over 2023, when 24,125 illegal Chinese were encountered.
What happened? No one who knows will say. It’s just that a whole lot of young Chinese, mostly males of military age, somehow decided, all at once and out of the blue, to spend a personal fortune to get to America and claim asylum.
Regardless of what has inspired them, this abrupt decision on the part of so many has been a boon to the Mexican smuggling cartels, with Chinese migrants paying as much as $55,000 to get to and across the US border.
Invariably, the migrants apply for asylum, claiming to be dissidents in opposition to the ChiCom regime. Yet there is clearly more here than meets the eye.
For example, the “opposition” many have toward Beijing could have more to do with the intent to commit criminal behavior than a yearning for freedom and to seek “a better life.” In February, agents arrested five Chinese nationals at an interior immigration checkpoint in California. The migrants were in possession of stolen gift cards and an assortment of bogus Pennsylvania driver’s licenses. Then, just last week, in Texas, two Chinese nationals were charged with money laundering after being found in possession of more than $250,000 in gold bars.
Aside from the desire to engage in such mundane criminality, intelligence experts in this country suspect that the Chinese government might be behind this sudden incursion. For example, Dr. Kenneth Allard, former dean of the US War College, says he believes the incursion “reflects a deliberate policy choice by the regime” and that the Biden-Harris administration lacks the willpower to properly investigate. Allard told Breitbart News:
Totalitarian governments like China are great exploiters of opportunity. They recognize weakness and capitalize on it immediately.
As to what aim, Allard doesn’t say. Espionage is usually a pretty good guess, however. Last week, Shujun Wang, a Chinese academic posing as a pro-democracy advocate, was convicted of spying in New York. Among other charges, he was accused of spying on and reporting back to Beijing on the activities of actual dissidents in this country. (Beijing, like the true totalitarian regime it is, likes to keep tabs on its nationals living outside the country. Sending phony dissidents along is a favorite way of doing so.)
The moral? Not all “freedom lovers” are what they seem.
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