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An influx of Chinese migrants, facing China's economic uncertainty, are crossing the U.S.'s southern border.
The number of Chinese migrants arrested by the U.S. border patrol peaked in December but it showed a downward trend in the first three months of 2024. Ken Moritsugu in Beijing contributed. Show ...
In December alone, border officials arrested 5,951 Chinese nationals on the southern border, a record monthly high, before the number trended down during the first three months of this year.
Chinese border authorities also administer entry and exit border inspection posts of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, [8] Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Zhuhai, Shantou and Haikou. In 2009, China had 277 border control checkpoints, covering entry into China by air, water and land in conjunction with CII (China Immigration Inspection).
22 February – 2024 Lixinsha Bridge collapse: Five people are killed when a ship rams the Lixinsha Bridge in Guangzhou. [8] 24 February – 2024 Nanjing building fire: A fire at an apartment block in Nanjing kills 15 people. [9] 28 February – China urges the world's largest nuclear states to negotiate a 'no-first-use' treaty. [10]
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]
Between 2014 and 2022, the average number of Chinese citizens who crossed the southern border without papers in a given year was around 1,400. In 2023, that number grew to 24,050.
On 18 March 2024, in response to the attack from Afghanistan, Pakistan Air Force carried out two intelligence based airstrikes on Afghanistan's eastern border provinces of Khost and Paktika. The Afghan government claim that Pakistan killed five women and three children. [ 26 ]