Border Patrol Apprehends Hundreds Of Chinese Nationals In Single Day, Over 20K Encountered So Far In FY 2024

 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Monday apprehended 269 Chinese citizens attempting to enter the US illegally, bringing the number of Chinese illegal immigrants encountered by Border Patrol agents in the past five months to more than 20,000 Is.

The San Diego Sector of the Border Patrol detained 269 illegal immigrants from China in a single day, a CBP source told Fox News' Bill Melugin CBP reported that agents in the same border sector detained 73 people from different countries in a week. More than 8,500 illegal immigrants were caught. Beginning of February. In fiscal year 2024 alone, which begins in October 2023, more than 20,000 Chinese nationals have been encountered at the border — compared with 450 who crossed the border in the entire fiscal year 2021, Melugin reported.

Chinese citizens seeking to enter the US illegally have now become the fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border, CBS News reports. Chinese migrants reportedly receive step-by-step instructions for hiring smugglers on Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok. Many Chinese migrants fly from China to Ecuador, which does not require a visa for Chinese citizens, before flying to Tijuana, Mexico, where they meet and pay the smugglers who will transport them. Interested in taking to the southern border of America.

Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo that he believed the Chinese Communist Party was directing the flow of Chinese citizens coming to the US. Asked about the possibility of the CCP pushing Chinese citizens into the US, which Bartiromo said has increased recently, Trump responded, “I believe so. And I believe we are going to have a terrorist attack. 100%.”

Trump said the increase in Chinese illegal immigrants could pose a threat to national security, considering whether an "army" was being put together.

"And they were mostly men, almost all men between the ages of 18 and 25. So what's it all about?" He asked.

The increase in the number of Chinese citizens entering the US illegally coincides with the ongoing battle between Republicans and the Biden administration over border security and immigration reform. Since Biden took office in January 2021, at least eight million illegal immigrants have been encountered at the border, not including people fleeing the border, according to CBP data.

On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by the Senate, saying it lacks "realistic" border security provisions that "do the most part of the national security supplemental legislation." Fails to address important aspects”.