'Fearmongering': Chinese migrant surge hearing dismissed by House Dems despite national security concerns
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Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee are dismissing a hearing on the spike in Chinese illegal immigration across the southern border.
It comes as officials at the southern border have encountered more than 1,200 Chinese illegal immigrants in the first eight days of May, averaging more than 150 a day. Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.
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Overall, across the border, numbers of Chinese nationals have increased dramatically since FY 2021. There were 1,970 encounters in FY 2022, over 24,000 in FY 2023 and so far this fiscal year, there have been over 24,200 encounters.
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