The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently deported over a hundred Chinese migrants, marking the first major charter flight deportations since 2018.
In an ongoing effort to reinforce immigration policies, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas emphasized that “we will continue to enforce our immigration laws and remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States.”
The United States has been seeing drastic surges in the number of Chinese immigrants entering the country illegally from Mexico for the past couple years. Border officials detained 10 times the amount of Chinese nationals from the southern border last year than the previous, according to The Guardian.
Chinese immigration has become the subject of intense political debate going into the current U.S. presidential election.
With candidate Donald Trump especially focused on strict enforcement of immigration laws, ABC News reports that more and more Asian communities are raising concerns that the mass deportation of Chinese nationals could encourage anti-Asian hate. Most migrants, however, have said they’re coming to the U.S. to escape poverty and repression.
U.S. Homeland Security is reportedly working with China on future removal flights. The Chinese government also said that it is firmly opposed to “all forms of illegal immigration,” and was cracking down hard on crimes that “harm the tranquility of national border.”
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