Record numbers of Chinese immigrants are flooding into the United States, and government data shows a sharp increase in the number of nationals being apprehended at the southwest border.
These Chinese nationals are using tools and instructions found through TikTok to infiltrate the southern border, CBS’ “60 Minutes” learned.
Field reporter Julio Rosas and Helen Lowry, author of Confucius Never Said, spoke on Fox & Friends about what motivated Chinese immigrants to come to the United States in the first place, and whether the surge in asylum seekers was due to national security concerns. We discussed how it affected security.
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“They were really moved, first of all, by an open invitation to the lawless border,” Rowley told Lawrence Jones on Tuesday. “They are following that example because everyone else is doing it and facing no consequences. And secondly, but most importantly, they are political, ongoing political persecution and worsening economic conditions.”
“No one feels safe in China, and…on the economic front, youth unemployment is high.The stock market is deteriorating.People’s salaries have experienced their biggest decline in the last year, and the real estate market is also depressed. “And the real estate market is also depressed,” she continued.
“All these factors come together to keep people coming here.”
“60 Minutes” featured some of the Chinese immigrants coming through the southern border in a segment aired over the weekend, saying many were able to enter the U.S. by following clear instructions. Posted on TikTok. They reportedly received instructions on how to enlist the help of smugglers to enter the country through a gap in the border wall.
Camera crews captured several cars of migrants being dropped off by smugglers in an open border area east of San Diego. Many illegal immigrants come to America on dangerous and expensive journeys through many countries.
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The number of Chinese nationals apprehended at the southwest border has skyrocketed in recent years.
Only 450 Chinese immigrants were arrested in 2021, compared to 2,176 and 24,314 in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
According to CBP, Chinese immigrants are the fastest growing group of people coming to the United States. Many fly to Ecuador, where visas are not required, and travel through Latin America before arriving at the U.S. southern border.
“This has never really happened before, at least not in this many cases,” Rosas said. “We’re not talking about people of Asian origin. But there were recent reports that an al-Shabab terrorist didn’t even evade border guards. He turned himself in, was processed and released. “and had been in this country for years,” more than a year before the U.S. government realized its mistake. ”
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“This is very worrying. I’ve been warning about this for quite some time,” he continued.
A TikTok spokesperson told Fox News, “TikTok strictly Forbidden We remove human smugglers from our platform and report them to law enforcement when warranted. ”
The spokesperson also noted that in the third quarter of 2023, the platform “aggressively” removed 93% of videos that violated its human exploitation policy.
In any case, Rosas warned that a porous southern border could foster opportunities for America’s adversaries to “exploit” American interests.
“This is what we’ve seen over the last few years, the fact that there’s no fear, the fact that the Border Patrol is essentially trying to hide from illegal immigrants, and it’s the illegal immigrants who are trying to find the Border Patrol. “It shows how crazy things have become under this administration,” Rosas said.
“It’s not even Central Americans or South Americans anymore. It’s people from all over the world who, quite frankly, may want to harm us and take advantage of this weakness to take advantage of us.” “These are people from hostile countries who may be in conflict,” he continued. .
