A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter said streamlining the vetting process for illegal immigrants from China could have “consequences” that benefit the Chinese Communist Party.
In January, DCNF investigative reporter Phil Lentzke announced that by April 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would be asking fewer questions to vet illegal immigrants from China, according to an email obtained by DCNF. In contrast, reported that it had been reduced to five. Lenczicki told podcast host Brian Dean Wright that Border Patrol agents are also no longer downloading content from cellphones belonging to illegal aliens. (Related: DCNF reporter explains how illegal Chinese immigrants quickly enter the US)
“Border Patrol agents no longer have to do something called a phone download, where they connect their phone to some device, download all the information, and then run it back to see if anything is wrong. It’s about sifting,” Lenczicki told Wright. . “We were told that this usually elicits information about the trafficker's network itself and that they would be looking for it. We have since also found cases of arrests for possession of child pornography.”
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according to According to data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 2,045,838 illegal immigrants were encountered in fiscal year 2023, following 2,206,436 in fiscal year 2022 and 1,659,206 in fiscal year 2021.
Lenziecki said multiple groups, including drug cartels, benefited from the simplified vetting, noting that illegal immigrants from China often take longer to be processed due to language barriers.
“We would have to use Google Translate to process these illegal immigrants,” Lenczicki said, adding that it would take four hours to process illegal immigrants from China under the pre-April 2023 protocol. It was pointed out that this may occur. The new protocol will allow more illegal immigrants from China to be given “notices to appear” and “cognizance orders,” according to an email obtained by DCNF.
“Ultimately, as you pointed out, all of these individuals will be admitted, but we have no information about any of them,” Lenczicki said. .
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