US expels more than 100 Chinese migrants in rare mass deportation
By: The Guardian
Reelecting Donald Trump will result in mass deportations and genocide of immigrants. Oh wait, Alejandro Mayorkas is Biden's guy.
Never mind, nothing to see here, move along.
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Department of Homeland Security says it plans more such 'large charter flights', sparking concerns for safety of migrants escaping poverty or repression
The US has sent back 116 Chinese migrants in the first such "large charter flight" in five years, the Department of Homeland Security has said.
"We will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States," homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.
The flight, which happened over the weekend, comes amid intense political debate ahead of the US presidential election over the issue of Chinese immigration.
Panama to shut down Darien Gap route in deal that will see US pay to repatriate migrants
The department said it was working with China to "reduce and deter irregular migration and to disrupt illicit human smuggling through expanded law enforcement efforts". It did not respond to questions about how long the migrants had been in the US.
The department said it was working with China on more removal flights in the future but did not give a timeline for when the next one would happen.
In recent years, the US has had a difficult time returning Chinese nationals who do not have the right to stay in America because China has resisted taking them back. Last year, the US saw a surge in the number of Chinese immigrants entering the country illegally from Mexico.
US border officials arrested more than 37,000 Chinese nationals on the southern border in 2023, 10 times the number during the previous year.
Chinese migration has increasingly become a rallying cry for Republicans and former president Donald Trump who have raised suspicions about why Chinese migrants are coming to the US.
Growing numbers of Chinese citizens set their sights on the US - via the deadly Darien Gap
Asian advocacy organisations are concerned the rhetoric could encourage harassment of Asians, while migrants themselves have said they're coming to escape poverty and repression.
Earlier this year, the US and China resumed cooperation on migration issues. The Chinese government has said it is firmly opposed to "all forms of illegal immigration". In a statement in May, China's US embassy said the country's law enforcement was cracking down "hard on crimes that harm the tranquility of national border, and maintained a high pressure against all kinds of smuggling organisations and offenders".
Earlier this year, a charter flight carried a small but unknown number of deportees to the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang, according to Thomas Cartwright of Witness at the Border, an advocacy group that tracks deportation flights.
Homeland security officials did not say how many people were on that 30 March flight, but the Gulfstream V aircraft typically has a seating capacity of 14. It also made a stop in South Korea before heading back to the US, Cartwright said.
The announcement of the weekend's large charter flight comes amid efforts elsewhere to shut down key routes used by Chinese migrants to get to the western hemisphere.
On Monday, the US announced that it would cover the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally, under a deal agreed with the Central American country's new president who has vowed to shut down the treacherous Darien Gap used by people travelling north to the US.
Also, as of 1 July Ecuador in effect reinstated visas for Chinese nationals after the South American country said it had seen a worrying increase in irregular migration.
Ecuador was one of only two mainland countries in the Americas to offer visa-free entry to Chinese nationals and had become a popular starting point for Chinese migrants to then trek north to the US.
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If you've read the seed to the end, notice that the Biden administration is scapegoating Panama and Ecuador. And Biden is punishing Panama by paying the country to deport and repatriate Chinese immigrants. Guess there's no word yet how much punishing Ecuador will cost American taxpayers.
Donald Trump ain't Democrats biggest problem.
No, he is the countries biggest problem.
Biden doing something to thwart illegal immigration is now a problem for you, who would have guessed... ?
So, Biden only approved mass deportations to get the MAGA vote? Yeah, that sounds like democracy in action. Let's run with that.
Nerm_L is dishonestly trying to equate 116 Chinese with the millions of Hispanics without permanent status now in the US. One is routine, while the other is fiscally and logistically improbable.
116 people sent back to China is not a 'mass' deportation. It's routine.
Why is it Chinese he is deporting?
China is not the place where most illegals originate (it isn't even close), so why are they being targeted?
Maybe Chinese immigrants are doing to well in the US. Too many Tiger Moms; and Democrats are trying to lower the over achieving demographic?
That is about as good of an explanation as any.
So, follow Biden's lead and blame the media? The Guardian is reporting this as a 'rare mass deportation'.
At least MAGA would agree that this kind of enforcement to thwart 'irregular migration' is rare. Biden will have to do more than just piddling pander enforcement to earn the MAGA vote.
And you are trying to equate this to multi-millions of undocumented Hispanics. Both are wrong.
Maybe they're smuggling TikTok into the country. Or is it Huawei routers? And it's quite possible these illegal immigrants are controlling Chinese spy balloons to steal the deepest, darkest secrets of the US military.
Be afraid, be very afraid. Go visit a Marine recruiter to calm those fears.
What Biden is doing is a drop in a bucket and most thinking Americans know that. Just Biden's usual pandering for votes that will ultimately do him zero good in this case!
Doesn't one have to START enforcing our immigration laws before you "continue" to enforce them?
There is a simple fix to the seating on an aircraft. They are using the wrong aircraft. The U.S. Air Force C17 Globemaster III can seat 100 paratroopers from the 82d Airborne Division for a training Airborne Operation. With palletized seating that capacity can be expanded to about 200. Even during Biden's Afghanistan retreat failure they fit 800 on a C17.
You can add another 50 by hanging them from the wheel wells.
Forget the C-17's. Use the C-5M Super Galaxy to haul their illegal invading behinds back! C-5's will carry more than three times the amount a C-17.
Reality both could be used. C-5 landing at random airports and the C-17 in every open field long enough.
Some of the Lockheed C-5B Super Galaxy air wings are stationed at Dover AFB in Delaware. Biden could score political points with the home folks.
As far as I know all Lockheed C-5B's have since been upgraded to C-5M Super Galaxy standard or are in the process thereof.
That could be; I don't know. Too lazy to look up the specs, too. I've never seen a C-5 in person. They're pretty impressive in pictures, though.
I've ridden them on a couple of occasions. They're even more impressive up close and inside.
Good work Joe, 116 illegals gone, 10,999,884 to go.
Is anyone else surprised by the number of Chinese nationals willing to break the law to enter America.[✘]
Arvo..yes we have got Chinese rolling up here in boats from Indonesia..three in the last couple of months...
They are deported within 24 hours to Nauru or PNG..where they sit until they decide to either go back home or another country takes them..
They are not welcome, we don't need them and we don't want them or anyone else who rolls up illegally..