This month, sources told ABC News that there were 302,000 encounters along the U.S.-Mexico border, the highest monthly total recorded. It has been reported for months that illegal immigrants entering through the southern border are coming from countries all over the world, including places like India.
As border crossings surged, one report this week found that the Biden administration instructed the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to “radically reduce” the amount of questions to ask illegal immigrants from one country.
Illegal immigrants from China who were stopped by CBP were only asked four questions from about 40 in the vetting process to enter the United States (via The Daily Caller):
The April 2023 email, which was sent by a CBP supervisor to a “master list” of about 500 Border Patrol agents, instructs CBP officials to radically reduce the number of interview questions for Chinese migrants apprehended after illegally crossing into the country from roughly 40 to just five. The “headquarters guidance” came as border agents were overwhelmed with near-record numbers of illegal crossings.
This scaling back of the interview process fast-tracked the releasing of Chinese illegal immigrants into the U.S. while making it more difficult for CBP agents to identify national security threats, J.J. Carrell, a retired CBP deputy patrol agent in charge, told the DCNF after reviewing the email.
“This policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants — this doesn’t make America safer,” Carrell said. “The final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the U.S.”
“This is just the government covering their ass, so they can say they vetted,” said Carrell. “I believe the government recognizes the threat of Chinese soldiers and spies that are pouring into America, and they want to try and identify these individuals. However, the same government does not want to stop the flow of illegal aliens or Chinese nationals — just the ‘bad ones,’ which is impossible.”
In November, Townhall reported how in the 2023 fiscal year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported over 24,000 Chinese nationals were apprehended at the southern border. This figure was up 10 times from the 1,970 arrests from the previous fiscal year. And, this is a 7,000 percent increase from 2021, where 323 Chinese nationals crossed the border. This was during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We know that China is using everything that they have, every bit of espionage, to spy on our military and our high technology," said Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., a national security analyst at IRIS Independent Research told Newsweek of the spike in numbers. "And we know China's government is not our friend, so this dramatic upswing, I think it could definitely present a potential national security risk."
"I'm 99 percent certain that at least a little bit of this is [the] Chinese military infiltrating for reasons harmful to our national security," Grant added. "Is it one person, is it a hundred, is it a thousand—we don't know, but the fact that we have to ask this question is just outrageous.”
"Clearly, that border is a big opportunity. Some of those people want to come here and have a better way of life, but I think some of those Chinese [nationals] quite possibly are here to spy and report back at a minimum."
