Since late 2022, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in the number of Chinese migrants crossing the southern border. American immigration authorities arrested 37,000 Chinese nationals at the border in 2023—over 10 times the number arrested the year before—per an Associated Press report.
There is no shortage of people who are suspicious of the migrants (and who insinuate that they're coming to sow chaos on China's behalf). "They're all military age and they mostly are men," observed former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last month. "And it sounds like to me, are they trying to build a little army in our country?"
