CBP encountered 57,163 foreign nationals from Russia between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023, over 20,000 more than the previous fiscal year. In the same time period, 52,700 Chinese nationals were encountered on America’s borders and at ports of entry, nearly 25,000 more than during fiscal year 2022.

“These alarming figures should not shock anyone,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., told The Daily Signal. “The Biden administration’s border policies continue to incentivize foreign nationals from all over the world to enter our country illegally via the southern border.”

Along America’s southern border with Mexico, CBP encountered 24,314 Chinese foreign nationals and 43,210 Russian foreign nationals.

Biggs added: “Having tens of thousands of Russian and [Chinese Communist Party]-linked individuals show up at our border is not normal by any measure. The inaction from the Biden administration is unacceptable and jeopardizes American lives.”

During the final full fiscal year of the Trump administration, 5,946 Russian nationals were encountered on America’s border and 18,395 Chinese nationals were encountered.

On Saturday, CBP released data revealing that agents encountered a record 3.2 million illegal aliens at U.S. ports of entry and between ports of entry on the northern and southern borders. That number does not include “gotaways.”

A recent report from the House Judiciary Committee found that “more than 1.7 million known gotaways” have successfully evaded Border Patrol agents and entered the country during the first 26 months of the Biden administration.  It is unclear how many illegal aliens have successfully evaded Border Patrol detection and entered America.

CBP also reported that 736 illegal aliens on America’s “terrorist watchlist” have been encountered at or between a port of entry in fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30. The terrorist watchlist includes “individuals who represent a potential threat to the United States, including known affiliates of watchlisted individuals,” according to CBP.

“The United States’ adversaries understand that now is the prime opportunity to infiltrate our country, and the data should raise immediate concerns, especially with the increasing threats of terror attacks,” Biggs said, referring to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered a war.

CBP’s San Diego Field Office issued a memo Friday warning of members of Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attempting to cross the border.

The San Diego office “assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to, the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the southwest border,” according to the memo, which was first reported Monday by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the U.S. to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico,” that CBP memo says.

Encounters of Chinese migrants crossing illegally jumped from 1,970 in fiscal year 2022 to 24,048 in fiscal year 2023, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Border Patrol encounters of illegal immigrants at the southern border surpassed two million, overall.

“Right now in China there’s extreme pessimism, especially among people in their 20s about the future of their country, so it’s understandable that they’re leaving and they’re trying to get into the United States. And, you know, these are people who are relatively middle class, so it shows you the problems in Chinese society are severe,” China expert Gordon Chang previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

There is also some suspicion that the migrants from China are coming for nefarious purposes.

“When I first saw that the surge in Chinese migrants, that’s the thought that came to my mind that these are either Ministry of State Security agents or Chinese military, who are coming to this country to commit acts of sabotage against the US,” Chang said.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green said in June that he had evidence that some of the Chinese migrants crossing the southern border are connected to the Chinese Communist Party and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

“In terms of the verification that the individuals released into the United States have ties to the PLA came from a sector chief and I’ll leave it with that at this point. We have a classified briefing coming up in the very near future,” Green said at the time.

CBP didn’t immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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That seems to be changing.

Musk took a trip to the southern border. What he found was shocking, prompting him to ask the big question about how our federal government is spending our tax dollars and their own political capital.

Why do so many American politicians from both parties care 100 times more about the Ukraine border than the USA border?

Why do so many American politicians from both parties care 100 times more about the Ukraine border than the USA border?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2023

The post has been shared tens of thousands of times and liked by hundreds of thousands of users. At the time of this post, it is approaching 20 million views. His livestream of his visit have even more engagement:

Went to the Eagle Pass border crossing to see what’s really going on pic.twitter.com/ADYY2XvAKT

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 29, 2023

He is, of course, right. Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have made supporting Ukraine against Russia their number one priority. And while many Ukraine-supporting Republicans occasionally mention the border invasion that is decimating American prosperity and dramatically reducing safety for citizens, they rarely  give the border crisis nearly as much effort as they do to securing more money for the oligarchs.

The answer to Musk’s question is simple. The Military Industrial Complex has most politicians and the entirety of corporate media in their pockets. Border security proponents just don’t have the money to buy attention.

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As you will see in the videos that I have posted in this article, men make up the overwhelming majority of the Chinese citizens that are “migrating” across our southern border, and almost all of those men are of military age.  In some cases, these men are paying human smugglers as much as $35,000 to get them into Texas.  So either those men are independently wealthy, or someone else is providing that money.  Unfortunately, most Americans don’t even realize that this is happening, because Fox News is the only major news network that is giving much attention to this crisis.

For years, many of us have been warning that the lack of security on our southern border is a major national security threat. Unfortunately, it could turn out to be a much larger threat than any of us ever imagined.

According to Fox News, U.S. officials are “seeing a 900% surge” in encounters with Chinese nationals at our southern border…

Footage taken by Fox News this week shows how Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are releasing busloads of Chinese nationals into the U.S. interior, just as the U.S.-Mexico border is seeing a 900% surge in encounters with migrants from the communist regime.

We have never witnessed anything like this before.

In 2022, a total of 1,987 Chinese nationals were apprehended along the southern border.

As of March 30th, a total of 4,293 Chinese nationals had already been apprehended along the southern border so far this year…

Already this year some 4293 Chinese migrants have been apprehended at the border.

That is more than double the 2022 total of 1987, according to data published by the Customs and Border Protection agency of the Department of Homeland Security.

We are being told that they are coming here because they want “American freedom”.

Okay, if that is true why didn’t we see similar numbers coming over in previous years?

Just as the U.S. and China are getting ready to fight a war, all of a sudden we are witnessing an exponential surge in Chinese nationals coming across our southern border.

Yeah, that doesn’t seem suspicious at all. And almost all of the Chinese nationals that are illegally entering this country are men.  I want you to watch the following video very carefully…

Did you notice that all of the Chinese migrants in that footage are men? I did not see one single woman. And I did not see one single child. Don’t women and children want “American freedom” too? Something is not adding up.

If Chinese migrants are caught while they are attempting to enter the country illegally, U.S. authorities process them and then release them into our communities…

Two busloads of migrants were released to a non-governmental organization in Brownsville, Texas. CBP sources told Fox they are being released with notices to appear (NTA) because there are so many crossing and no more space to house them.

Migrants released with NTAs are given a court hearing for their immigration cases, which can take between four and seven years to resolve.

As U.S. Senator Josh Hawley has pointed out, the Biden administration is not even trying to enforce our immigration laws at this point.

Every single day, more Chinese nationals are released, and they are free to go wherever they want…

The Biden administration insists that they have to release these migrants into our communities because there are just so many of them and there is no more space to house them.

I have a better solution. If someone comes here illegally, don’t let them in.

But that is common sense, and our politicians don’t like common sense.

We know how most of these Chinese nationals are getting to the southern border.  Most of them begin their journeys in Ecuador, because Ecuador “is one of the few countries that doesn’t require tourist visas for Chinese citizens”…

The journey for many of these Chinese nationals begins in Ecuador, sources tell NewsNation. Ecuador is one of the few countries that doesn’t require tourist visas for Chinese citizens. Many will land in Ecuador before making their way through the dangerous jungles of the Darien Gap in Panama.

If the Chinese government was interested in doing something about the flow of migrants, they could greatly restrict or ban travel to Ecuador. But that hasn’t happened.

Could it be possible that this is all part of a plan? Could it be possible that the Chinese are pre-positioning thousands upon thousands of men of military age for when a war between our two nations finally breaks out?

The Chinese know that the instant they attack Taiwan it will mean war with the United States. But they keep preparing for such a conflict anyway.

It has been said that most wars are won or lost long before they are ever fought.

And in this case, the Biden administration is turning a blind eye to an absolutely massive security threat.

Thousands upon thousands of Chinese men of military age have already entered this country illegally, and more are getting in every single day.

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Article cross-posted from End of the American Dream.

A similar increase has occurred in encounters with illegal immigrants from Russia, with CBP reporting 1,030 in January 2022, but over four times that—4,509—last month.

It is a “source of concern” when an influx of migrants attempts to enter America illegally from a country “that we know isn’t on our side,” Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, told The Daily Signal.

The likely reason for the border surge of Chinese and Russian migrants, Arthur said, is that “word’s gone out around the world that the southwest border is open.”

Since fiscal year 2023 began Oct. 1, Customs and Border Protection says it has has encountered 2,999 Chinese nationals on the southern border, outpacing the combined total of 2,626 for fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

Arthur, who previously worked as an immigration judge, said he saw Chinese nationals in his courtroom who commonly paid “upward of $60,000 to $70,000 to have the opportunity to make it to the southwest border.”

One of the reasons for the increase of Chinese nationals at the border is that “the human smugglers have cracked the China market,” said Michael Cunningham, a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s multimedia news organization.)

“The China market is more lucrative,” Cunningham said, adding that smugglers charge Chinese nationals more to be brought across the border, simply because they can.

Cunningham told The Daily Signal that he doesn’t think the increase in illegal aliens from China indicates the communist regime is trying to send large numbers of spies into the U.S. Instead, he points to China’s political climate and extreme COVID-19 policies that likely spur Chinese nationals to flee.

“The border crisis [has] been ongoing for years under [President Joe] Biden,” Cunningham said. “The Chinese government is never this far behind the curve. So, I can’t say they haven’t been exploiting it, but if they have, then they have been all along.”

But Cunningham said that fears over China’s sending spies across America’s southern border are “a reasonable concern to have and … it’s just one of the reasons why it’s so important that the Biden administration start taking the border seriously, and that our country takes its sovereignty seriously.”

Concern over the threat China poses to America has been heightened because of the Chinese spy balloon that traveled across the country before a U.S. fighter jet was ordered to shoot it down over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4.

“Everybody’s focused on, you know, Chinese spy balloons going over the United States,” the Center for Immigration Studies’ Arthur said, adding that it is “the job of the federal government to protect all of our borders, be they land borders, sea borders, or from above.”

While the Biden administration is focused on China’s intrusion into American airspace, it’s a good time to “reconsider the vulnerabilities that are posed to the United States from what is, respectfully but objectively, an open border,” Arthur said.

Over the past two years, “the message getting out to would-be illegal immigrants has been that the U.S. border is open, except for some minor formalities,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told The Daily Signal.

In that same time, Hankinson said, “Border authorities have arrested—and then often let go—illegal border crossers from 150 countries, China and Russia included,” Hankinson said.

“Today, it is easier to simply walk across the border and surrender to the welcome of U.S. immigration authorities, secure in the knowledge that they will be released for the foreseeable future,” he said.

In fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30, Customs and Border Protection reported a record 2.3 million land encounters with migrants at the southern border. With over 700,000 total encounters between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 (the first three months of fiscal year 2023), CBP encounters with illegal aliens are on track to overtake the previous year’s numbers.

Customs and Border Protection also reports that it seized just over 14,000 pounds of fentanyl in fiscal year 2022 and more than 7,000 pounds between October and the end of December.

Article cross-posted from Daily Signal.