Chinese nationals are crossing America's southern border at a rapid rate.
On Wednesday alone, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 206 Chinese nationals crossing into the San Diego sector, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported.
In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported over 3,700 encounters with Chinese nationals on the southern border, nearly all in the San Diego sector.
Back up to January 2021, when Joe Biden became president, and CBP encountered only 17 Chinese nationals at the southern border.
To find out why so many Chinese nationals are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego sector, The Daily Signal spoke to Scott as well as to Derek Maltz, a 28-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and to Michael Cunningham, a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center.
The former Border Patrol chief pointed to reports that Chinese nationals are "Systematically coming into the United States and buying property, buying foreign property, buying property near military bases," as evidence that they are crossing the border intentionally.
Although illegal immigrants could achieve some cultural and economic influence on America, Cunningham said, it's unlikely that significant numbers of Chinese nationals cross the southern border with the intent of spying on the U.S. Legal ways to enter the U.S., he said, provide greater opportunity for Chinese spies to access sensitive U.S. data than an illegal alien could get at.
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