A post by FNC’s reporter Bill Melugin said that the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector is pausing its social media interactions for the time being. The implication is that the flood of illegal aliens is at such a scale that it can’t keep up with social media as it does its job.

What?!

Just days Border Patrol’s Tucson sector reported having 15,300 illegal crossings last week (highest weekly total ever), Tucson sector BP says it’s pausing its social media until further notice due to “ongoing migration surge”.
This account posts valuable info & data. Wow. https://t.co/TlaT6N5evX

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 26, 2023

As it was said, this is a bad look. What are they hiding? Are they running cover for DHS and Secretary Mayorkas and Joe Biden? Did Mayorkas order them to get off of social media? The X account is very helpful, as are all the accounts of the Border Patrol sectors. The accounts relay facts and figures of what is going on at various points on the border. I don’t know if I follow all of them, but I follow several and I get very useful information from them as I write about the Biden border crisis.

Maybe it is just an all-hands on deck mentality right now in Tucson. No distractions. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised about anything this administration does when it comes to the southern border. Biden is running for re-election and his administration will provide cover for his inaction and ineptness when it comes to securing the borders and keeping the homeland safe.

Tucson is struggling with all-time high numbers of illegal immigration. The pause in using social media to get the facts out comes days after it reported that there were 15,300 illegal crossings last week. That was the Tucson Sector’s highest weekly number ever recorded. Secretary Mayorkas is facing impeachment for his role in the Biden border crisis. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene promised to put his impeachment to a vote in the House when Thanksgiving break is over. About two weeks ago, she brought a snap impeachment vote to the floor and it failed.

The Border Patrol has its hands full.

Week in Review…

– 15,300 Apprehensions
– 117 lbs. of Fentanyl
– 78 Federal Criminal Cases
– 17 Rescues
– 14 Human Smuggling Events
– 3 Narcotics Events #HonorFirst pic.twitter.com/75pt070mDr

— John R. Modlin (@USBPChiefTCA) November 24, 2023

Typically, Tucson sees 2,000 to 2,500 illegal crossings each day. The crossers come from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

We should be concerned about some large numbers of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border. The New York Times published an article that reported on 24,000 Chinese citizens that have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined. Why would that be? Most are men of military service age. Most are not poor, they have money.

They fly into Ecuador because they do not need a visa there. Then they pay smugglers to take them on the dangerous trek through the jungle between Colombia and Panama to the United States known as the Darien Gap. Then they turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents and seek asylum.

Chinese illegal aliens have more success than illegal aliens from other countries with their asylum claims. Those who aren’t successful end up staying here anyway because China refuses to take them back. That’s a dirty little secret in discussions about illegal immigration – American officials can’t force other countries to take back their citizens. There are about a dozen countries who do not cooperate with the United States and China is the worst offender. The NYT reported that of the 1.3 million people in the United States with final orders to be deported, 100,000 are Chinese.

The migrants are part of an exodus of citizens who have grown frustrated with harsh restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic and the direction of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian government. The trend has been coined the “run philosophy,” with citizens escaping to Japan, Europe and the United States.

“The largest reason for me is the political environment,” Mark Xu, 35, a Chinese elementary and middle school English teacher, said in February, as he waited to board a boat in Necoclí, Colombia, a beach town in the north. China was so stifling, he added, it had become “difficult to breathe.”

He was among about 100 Chinese migrants setting off that morning to start the journey through the treacherous Darién Gap, the only land route to the United States from South America. Mr. Xu said he learned about the trek from YouTube and through Google searches, including “how to get outside of China” and “how to escape.”

The subject of illegal immigrants from China did not come up in the conversation Xi and Biden had in San Francisco recently. Shocker, I know. Biden doesn’t have any interest in the southern border or border security.

A common destination for the Chinese is Flushing, Queens. Life is relatively easy for them there.

“New York is a self-sufficient Chinese immigrants community,” said the Rev. Mike Chan, the executive director of the Chinese Christian Herald Crusade, a faith-based group in the neighborhood. Newcomers do not have to speak English because so many speak Mandarin or Cantonese, he added, making it easier to find a job as well. That kind of network helps people find immigration lawyers, housing and other basic needs.

Their route to Flushing through a South American jungle is what makes the most recent arrivals different. In the past, most Chinese asylum seekers have come on a visa and then applied once they were in the United States. The last time such an influx of Chinese migrants entered illegally, they came by sea in the 1990s. But the current volume is much higher.

Migrants seeking asylum have to wait about six months after they file their application to get permission to work legally. More recent arrivals will wait years for their cases to wind through the system.

In general, Chinese asylum seekers are more successful in immigration court than most. About 67 percent of applicants from China were granted asylum from 2001 to 2021, according to data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

I’m sure everything is fine. A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from China at a time when Xi is flexing his muscles and making clear that his goal is world dominance while playing the dazed and confused old man in the White House for a fool is probably just a coincidence, right? Too bad I don’t believe in coincidences, especially in politics.