Breaking Borders: The Risky Route Asians Take to Gate Crash into America
Understanding the ongoing crisis due to the Illegal and desperate journeys of migrants from east to west in search for freedom.
Border control and protection is a hot topic this season, and the Texas border impasse1 between Democrats and Republicans is just one side of the story. Recently, the mainstream media has been reporting extensively on the unusual uptick in activity at the U.S. southern border with Mexico. It started with a 60-minutes exposé by CBS reporters who spent 4 days watching this illegal activity unfold in their viewfinders.
The report focused on a physical gap left open and unattended at the end of the southern border fence that is being exploited by illegal migrants. They sneak in while an armed U.S. border patrol silently watches on without taking any action. While it is surprising that this passage has not been barricaded yet, what is more alarming are the ethnicities of these migrants. They are not Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, or Venezuelans. They are not from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras. The majority of illegal migrations crossing over are from China and India.
Near this illegal entry point is a private property north of the border that belongs to Jerry Shuster, a 70+ year-old resident of Jacumba Hot Springs, California, located about 75 miles east of San Diego. The migrants enter Jerry’s property and unapologetically use his resources to camp out and endure their first cold California night.
Jerry, who was interviewed for 60-minutes, estimated about 3000 illegals trespassing into this property every week. All day long, from sunrise to sunset, there are batches of a dozen or more migrants getting dropped off every 30 mins. Many of them discard their passports on their way in, and wait for U.S. border control to register them. Within a week, they are allocated to a city where they can start a new asylum life in The United States — the land of the free, home for the brave.
With the world in disarray due to ongoing conflicts and wars, refugees and asylum seekers are heading toward The United States in unprecedented numbers2. Meanwhile, the plight of American citizens like Jerry, who migrated legally in 1969 from former Yugoslavia, seems to be falling on deaf ears.
“We have a very difficult situation here, they’re knocking our fences down, they don’t obey the rules, they’re burning down our trees, they’re burning down our fence poles, they are coming near our homes, we don’t know who these people are, we really don’t.” 3
This is the largest mass illegal migration of Asians from east to west at a time when the open-door policies of the Biden administration are being challenged by a Republican opposition. Many conservatives across the country call this an invasion of America, whereas the more liberal minds would find it disheartening and disturbing to watch as I did.
What you will read next is the modus operandi of these migrants from China and India trying to escape two economically stable and prosperous countries.
Part 1: Understanding the East Asian route from China to the U.S. southern border
Part 2: Understanding the South Asian route from India to the U.S. southern border
Part 3: Comparative analysis of migrants from China and India based on publicly available data of encounters at the U.S. southern border