'In the crosshairs': Massive number of migrants from this foreign adversary are illegally entering US

There were much than 1,000 apprehensions of Chinese nationals crossing the U.S. border illegally successful the past week, a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) root tells Fox News.

Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,026 Chinese nationals successful the past week alone, the root said. Of those, 98.5% were caught successful the San Diego Sector.

San Diego saw 1,011 encounters, Yuma Sector saw 10, portion determination were 2 successful El Centro Sector and 2 astatine the bluish border. There were nary apprehensions of Chinese nationals successful Texas.

BORDER PATROL SECTOR STOPS HUNDREDS OF CHINESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN JUST TWO DAYS AS NUMBERS SOAR

A Chinese migrant speaks to a borderline patrol serviceman earlier being processed aft crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The latest numbers travel arsenic the borderline has seen a melodramatic summation successful the numbers of Chinese nationals, a inclination that has raised nationalist information concerns and fears of espionage from immoderate Republicans.

The San Diego Sector saw much than 200 encounters successful 2 abstracted days past week. On Thursday, agents encountered 223 migrants, aft encountering 262 connected Wednesday.

That means that much Chinese amerciable immigrants crossed illegally into the assemblage successful 2 days than crossed the full confederate borderline successful each of FY 21 – erstwhile 342 migrants were encountered.

Overall, crossed the border, numbers person accrued dramatically since FY 21. There were 1,970 encounters successful FY 2022, implicit 24,000 successful FY 2023 and truthful acold determination person been implicit 24,200 encounters truthful acold this fiscal year.

Some Republicans person raised interest astir the anticipation of espionage from those coming crossed the border. Recently, House Republicans warned that the Chinese Communist Party "wants the chaos and devastation" that comes from fentanyl coming successful to the U.S. Illicit fentanyl is chiefly made utilizing Chinese precursors by Mexican cartels and past moved crossed the confederate onshore border.

ICE CHIEF SAYS THIS FOREIGN ADVERSARY ISN'T TAKING BACK ITS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

Chinese migrants attempting to transverse into the U.S. from Mexico are detained by Customs and Border Protection connected Nov. 11, 2023, successful Jacumba, California. (Nick Ut/Getty Images)

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents each rank-and-file Border Patrol agents nationwide, told Fox News earlier this twelvemonth that the bulk of the Chinese borderline crossers are azygous big males of subject age.

"That is simply a precise scary prospect. We cognize that China does not similar us. We cognize that we are successful the crosshairs of China," helium said. "And they are exporting truthful galore radical to our country, and you person to truly fearfulness astir that."

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At a caller House Appropriations Committee hearing, acting ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner was asked by Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., to place the apical countries that are the astir hard to instrumentality nationals to erstwhile deported from the U.S. – and including China successful that list.

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"We've got Bhutan, apical of the database there, Cambodia, they've been challenging, the People’s Republic of China, though we’ve had immoderate caller cautiously optimistic advancement with the Chinese, truthful I privation to accidental it’s moving successful the close absorption there."