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@laralogan: For at least a month, Chinese nationals have been surging across the southern border, acc to law enforcement. Rio Grande station is receiving 50 - 70 every single day - a phenomenon they have never seen...…
Probably a mix of Sleeper Cell saboteurs and legitimate dissidents/Economically disenfranchised the Chinese let escape to provide cover to the Saboteurs.
The economic reports coming out of China aren’t necessarily great. Which would then make a steady trickle of Chinese make sense.
But the trick is determining how much of the reports are legitimate or not. Because then you could draw rough estimates to expected rates of illegal immigration from China