>Lei Muhan and her parents crossed 11 nations along the journey from China to the United States, riding on the backs of motorcycles, paying off smugglers and trekking through a scorching desert.
>The small California bedroom that now houses the family seemed a little dull by comparison. Muhan, 10, passed the time flipping through a spiral notebook, eager to start school. “I Am Happy,” she had written over and over in English.
>The family arrived in the United States in April, joining the largest wave of illegal border crossings by Chinese immigrants in history — part of a wider influx that is also bringing record numbers of migrants from South America, India, Turkey and an array of African nations. Many are guided by global smuggling networks that seek to exploit the dysfunctional U.S. asylum system.
>U.S. authorities have encountered more than 55,000 Chinese migrants crossing illegally from Mexico during the past 18 months, primarily in the rugged desert mountains east of San Diego — up from 3,813 in 2022. It is the last stage of the journey known in Chinese as zouxian — “walking the line.”
>Driven in part by the stifling economic and political fallout of China’s extended covid-19 lockdowns, the Chinese arrivals have become a political and national security flash point in Washington. Leading Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, refer to the migrants as “fighting-age men,” and warn the influx could mask espionage activities, while Democrats, analysts and the migrants themselves point to China’s unemployment crisis and repressive government.
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>Donald Trump, refer to the migrants as “fighting-age men,” and warn the influx could mask espionage activities,
???? This is just anti immigration sentiment masked as national defense. China’s espionage machine is well documented and it doesn’t involve undocumented immigration, it’s students and professionals. Why are Republicans so hell-bent on finding any reason to hate immigration
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These people have skills and would be good citizens, and there would be no greater attack on China’s ideology than to demonstrate that even now, folks like this would prefer to be American than Chinese.
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Turning these people away is the national equivalent of self-harm
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>Lei Muhan and her parents crossed 11 nations along the journey from China to the United States, riding on the backs of motorcycles, paying off smugglers and trekking through a scorching desert.
>The small California bedroom that now houses the family seemed a little dull by comparison. Muhan, 10, passed the time flipping through a spiral notebook, eager to start school. “I Am Happy,” she had written over and over in English.
>The family arrived in the United States in April, joining the largest wave of illegal border crossings by Chinese immigrants in history — part of a wider influx that is also bringing record numbers of migrants from South America, India, Turkey and an array of African nations. Many are guided by global smuggling networks that seek to exploit the dysfunctional U.S. asylum system.
>U.S. authorities have encountered more than 55,000 Chinese migrants crossing illegally from Mexico during the past 18 months, primarily in the rugged desert mountains east of San Diego — up from 3,813 in 2022. It is the last stage of the journey known in Chinese as zouxian — “walking the line.”
>Driven in part by the stifling economic and political fallout of China’s extended covid-19 lockdowns, the Chinese arrivals have become a political and national security flash point in Washington. Leading Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, refer to the migrants as “fighting-age men,” and warn the influx could mask espionage activities, while Democrats, analysts and the migrants themselves point to China’s unemployment crisis and repressive government.
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>Donald Trump, refer to the migrants as “fighting-age men,” and warn the influx could mask espionage activities,
???? This is just anti immigration sentiment masked as national defense. China’s espionage machine is well documented and it doesn’t involve undocumented immigration, it’s students and professionals. Why are Republicans so hell-bent on finding any reason to hate immigration
These people have skills and would be good citizens, and there would be no greater attack on China’s ideology than to demonstrate that even now, folks like this would prefer to be American than Chinese.
Turning these people away is the national equivalent of self-harm