Unprecedented Numbers of Chinese, Russian Illegal Immigrants Are Crossing Border, Posing Security Risks: Immigration Experts

Unprecedented numbers of Chinese and Russians, who may pose national security threats, are entering the United States as illegal immigrants from Mexico because President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refuse to enforce laws and regulations designed to protect the United States, three immigration experts say.

“We literally apprehend immigrants from China. Do you think we are getting what their background is before we release them? Of course we’re not,” Mark Morgan, former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), told journalists during a Feb. 9 press conference.

“So not only do we have more than 1.2 million known ‘gotaways,’ and by the way, if you ask border patrol agents, they will tell you we really have no idea how many there really are and it could easily be double that. But we are also knowingly releasing people into the U.S., knowing that we have not done a full-vetted background on [them], in violation of the law.”

Data compiled by the CBP shows that U.S. officials on the border with Mexico encountered 1,915 Chinese during the first three months of the 2023 fiscal year—October 2022 through December 2022. That compares with 4,394 during all of the three prior years. If the rate of such encounters continues throughout 2023, it will total 5,745 encounters, a one-year 31 percent increase over the previous three-year total.

The same data show 17,298 encounters with Russian individuals during the first three months of the fiscal year, and 26,333 for the three prior years. Russia and China have grown increasingly close in recent years, cooperating in joint military maneuvers, in opposing the United States, and on economic matters.

In addition to thousands of Chinese and Russians coming into the country through Mexico without background checks, at least 140 individuals on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist have been detained by U.S. immigration officials since Biden took office, more than were detained during the four years under his predecessor in the Oval Office, Donald Trump, according to Tom Homan, former acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Time)