Whoever All These Chinese Are - They Aren't Refugees

Vast numbers of Chinese have shown up at our southern border demanding asylum in the last few years

Most Chinese fly from China to Ecuador, because Ecuador does not require visas for Chinese to enter.

The Chinese then come overland from Ecuador across Central America to the United States.

Pinheiro, who is the executive director of migrant services at legal aid company Al Otro, says she has spoken to Chinese migrants who have walked through multiple Central American countries, but others who could afford it flew into Mexico and have walked into the U.S. from there.

Police sources told NewsNation they pay smugglers up to $35,000 to get them across from Mexico into the U.S. More than 4,000 Chinese nationals were apprehended by Border Patrol in October- a huge uptick from the 329 who were captured at the same time last year.

Significant numbers of Chinese also travel to Mexico for work purposes.

There is something very twisted about the idea that a Chinese man who has the cash to fly to Mexico from China, spends a week at a beach resort and then hands a smuggler above $30,000 to get him across the border deserves our support.

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