'These Numbers Are Staggering': Chinese Migrants Continue To Surge Across Southern Border

 Border Patrol agents are increasingly seeing Chinese migrants crossing the southern border, according to the latest federal data.

"Right now in China there's extreme pessimism, especially among people in their 20s about the future of their country, so it's understandable that they're leaving and they're trying to get into the United States. And, you know, these are people who are relatively middle class, so it shows you the problems in Chinese society are severe," China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. The influx of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border continued through April, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

In total, Border Patrol has encountered 9,711 Chinese migrants at the southern border between October 2022 and April, marking an already roughly 393% increase compared to all of fiscal year 2022.

Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, a Gatestone Institute distinguished senior fellow, and a member of its advisory board, believes many young Chinese migrants are fleeing China due to a lack of hope for their future in the country, he told the DCNF. "Right now in China there's extreme pessimism, especially among people in their 20s about the future of their country, so it's understandable that they're leaving and they're trying to get into the United States. And, you know, these are people who are relatively middle class, so it shows you the problems in Chinese society are severe. And that to me, suggests that this is going to get worse because these numbers are staggering."

Most of the Chinese migrants encountered by Border Patrol so far in fiscal year 2023 are single adults, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.

"They don't say much, just that they left China to escape communism," a Border Patrol agent who has apprehended some of the Chinese migrants at the southern border told the DCNF. "They get interviewed by intel and released," the agent said.

Chinese migrants are known to pay smugglers between $15,000 and $30,000 to make the journey, a second Border Patrol agent stationed along the southern border, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the leaked document, previously told the DCNF. "[The] majority of them have thousands and thousands of U.S. dollars," the agent said.

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