a Chinese immigrantsWanted on a murder charge in Los Angeles, he crossed the border to turn himself in to authorities in hopes of being released into the U.S., where he was caught and arrested, according to a Homeland Security source.
Sources told The Washington Post that the migrant, who gave his name as Junnan Ge, was arrested in the San Diego area on June 14 along with a larger group of migrants who had turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents in hopes of being allowed into the country.
Border Patrol agents conducted a background check upon his arrest and discovered that Ge, 37, had an outstanding warrant for his arrest out of Los Angeles in 2004 for murder.
Ge also crossed the border in 2011 after the murder charges were filed, but it was unclear whether he was released into the U.S. or deported then.
Border Patrol agents told The Washington Post that their vetting procedures are neither thorough nor perfect, and they know they are unknowingly letting bad actors into the US.
Still, they have arrested 587 illegal immigrants with arrest warrants since October 2023 and led to more than 10,000 convictions, according to federal data.
Meanwhile, immigrants from China are entering the United States illegally in record numbers.
According to internal data previously leaked to The Washington Post, the Border Patrol has recorded more than 30,000 Chinese nationals crossing the border since October last year.
This figure already exceeds the 24,000 people caught trying to cross the border last year.
By comparison, only 342 Chinese migrants crossed the border in fiscal year 2021.
Immigrants from China are primarily concentrated in the San Diego area, where most have crossed in recent months.
In order to crack down on illegal border crossings, the Biden administration implemented a policy on June 5th to restrict access to the asylum system until the number of border crossings fell to an average of 1,500 people per day for seven consecutive days.
But in San Diego, immigrants from more than 100 countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, including China, are exempt from the order and are being released into the U.S. for the most part with future trial dates, according to a leaked memo first obtained by the Washington Examiner.
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
