Late last year, Townhall reported how new figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) showed that there was a growing number of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the southern border.
"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," Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., a national security analyst at IRIS Independent Research, told Newsweek at the time.
"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,” Grant added.
Earlier this year, Townhall reported how illegal immigrants from China were learning about a particular gap in the border wall through the platform TikTok.
In a House Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, several experts revealed that the Biden administration installed a relaxed vetting process for Chinese nationals who illegally cross the southern border. Reportedly, there’s been a roughly 8,000 percent increase in Chinese illegal immigration since March 2021.
“Unfortunately, under the Biden administration, Border Patrol agents have been instructed that when processing Chinese nationals, they should conduct short, basic interviews, that include only generic background questions, instead of in-depth interviews,” Republican Rep. Dan Bishop, chair of the subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability, said during the hearing.
“In other words, there is no serious vetting,” he added. Reportedly, DHS directed Border Patrol to reduce the 40 questions they were required to ask down to five “basic questions” about military service, birthplace, political affiliation, among others.
Levels of illegal Chinese immigration are skyrocketing under President Biden, with little to no vetting of those entering.
— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) May 16, 2024
The CCP sees our open border as an opportunity.
This surge of unvetted Chinese nationals at our border is an unambiguous threat to our national security. pic.twitter.com/r6MQHNmA3N
“Some Chinese nationals might be motivated to seek asylum on legitimate claims of persecution…but it is more likely that they come for economic reasons or other motives that do not meet the statutory requirements for asylum…these Chinese nationals know that it is also very unlikely that they will ever be returned to China. Under this administration’s policies, even if order-removed by an immigration judge, some Chinese nationals might have more nefarious motives for coming to the United States,” Bishop explained, noting that in some parts of the country, Chinese organizations are working with Mexican drug cartels.
In January, emails obtained by The Daily Caller showed that the Biden administration was working to ease the vetting process for Chinese illegal aliens, which Townhall covered.
“This policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants — this doesn’t make America safer,” J.J. Carrell, a retired CBP deputy patrol agent in charge, told the Caller. “The final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the U.S."