The Border Patrol made 22,187 arrests of Chinese for crossing the border illegally from Mexico from January through September, nearly 13 times the same period in 2022. Arrests peaked at 4,010 in September, up 70% from August. The vast majority were single adults.
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00:22 >> It's completely shocking to see all
00:24 of these people here crossing from Central Asia, from China,
00:28 from Turkey, from all over the world.
00:30 When we're used to seeing border crossers here,
00:32 Central Americans, Mexicans trying
00:35 to avoid the border patrol.
00:36 And here we have this giant mass of Asians coming in saying,
00:40 "Please," and they make this, "Please arrest me.
00:43 Where's the guy who's going to arrest me?"
00:45 It's very unusual for this area.
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