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An influx of Chinese migrants, facing China's economic uncertainty, are crossing the U.S.'s southern border.
More than 35,000 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border in 2023, but crossings have dropped significantly since then due to stricter enforcement on both the U.S. and Mexican sides.
At the U.S.-Mexico border, the Border Patrol made 22,187 arrests of Chinese people for crossing the border illegally from Mexico from January through September, nearly 13 times the same period in ...
The major wave of Chinese immigration occurred between 1895 and 1910, with about seventy percent coming from the United States, which had been adopting anti-Chinese measures. [12] However, several thousand Chinese were allowed to enter the country directly from China during the Cantu regime, more than 2,000 in 1919 alone. [ 7 ]
The Chinese diaspora in Latin and South America, as in North America, has existed since the 19th century owing to labour shortages in the Americas. [12] Mexico, in particular, encouraged Chinese immigration, signing a commercial treaty in 1899 that allowed Chinese citizens to run enterprises in Mexico, some of which would become involved in people smuggling. [13]
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first “large charter flight” in five years. ... U.S. border officials ...
Scripps News spoke with aid volunteers at the border who said migrants who don't speak English or Spanish often go without their needs getting met.
Wang, who traveled several weeks from Ecuador to the southern U.S. border, then spent 48 hours in an immigration detention facility before heading to Flushing, said the idea that Chinese migrants ...