Chinese Illegal Immigrant Crossings That Surged During Biden Admin A 'national Security Concern,' Expert Warns

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One separator information master said nan monolithic number of Chinese forbidden immigrants who crossed nan United States separator during nan Biden administration poses a "national information concern."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 122 forbidden immigrants to China June 3, galore of whom were convicted of murder, supplier trafficking, rape and quality smuggling. Officials said nan individuals were taken to China connected a "special precocious consequence charter flight."

The Department of Justice connected Tuesday charged 7 Chinese nationals aft they allegedly operated a multimillion- dollar marijuana trafficking ring. According to nan Justice Department, nan suspects smuggled forbidden immigrants done nan U.S.-Mexico separator to activity successful marijuana turn houses.

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"This lawsuit pulls backmost nan curtain connected a sprawling criminal endeavor that exploited our migration strategy and our communities for individual gain," said U.S. Attorney Leah Foley. 

"These defendants allegedly turned quiet homes crossed nan Northeast into hubs for a criminal enterprise, building a multimillion-dollar achromatic marketplace cognition disconnected nan backs of an forbidden workforce and utilizing our neighborhoods arsenic cover. That ends today."

Chinese immigrants astatine nan confederate border

Chinese migrants attempting to transverse into nan U.S. from Mexico are detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection astatine nan separator Nov. 11, 2023, successful Jacumba, Calif. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

In fiscal twelvemonth 2024 alone, according to nan House Committee connected Homeland Security, complete 24,376 Chinese nationals were encountered and 24,214 were apprehended. In March 2024 alone, separator encounters of Chinese nationals accrued complete 8,000% erstwhile compared to March 2021. The study was released successful April 2024.

Lora Ries, head of nan Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center and erstwhile Department of Homeland Security acting lawman main of staff, told Fox News Digital successful an question and reply that nan crisp summation successful Chinese nationals crossing nan confederate separator is "absolutely" a nationalist information concern.

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Migrants sitting adjacent separator wall

Hundreds of migrants scope nan Mexico-U.S. separator successful Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2024. (David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The numbers roseate quickly during nan Biden administration. I mean, pre-Biden, Customs and Border Protection would spot astir 1,000 Chinese nationals a period nationwide, whether that was astatine nan ports of introduction aliases betwixt ports of entry. And, during Biden's 4 years, that roseate quickly to 2,000, up to 7,000 a month. It moreover deed complete 8,000 1 period successful December of 2023. And astir of these were betwixt nan ports of entry," Ries said. 

Ries fears nan Chinese Communist Party was utilizing nan confederate separator arsenic a "tactic" against nan U.S. during erstwhile President Biden's administration.

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CCP Flags outside

Red flags flutter successful beforehand of nan Great Hall of nan People earlier nan yearly 2 sessions March 4, 2022, successful Beijing, China.  (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

"Given nan galore strategies that nan Chinese Communist Party uses against nan U.S. — whether that is sending fentanyl precursor ingredients to Mexico to beryllium smuggled into nan U.S., sidesplitting hundreds of thousands of Americans, COVID-19 from Wuhan, spy balloons, buying farmland adjacent subject bases — we person to presume that nan CCP took advantage of nan unfastened separator during Biden's years and sent galore Chinese nationals pinch mal-intent," Ries said. 

Adam Sabes is simply a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected Twitter @asabes10.

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