Chinese invasion underway in Arizona

In a stunning example of history repeating itself, an invasion of Chinese illegal immigrants is underway in the American Southwest and the authorities are doing everything they can to stop it. In the Nogales Sector of Arizona, 78 Chinese nationals were apprehended while trying to enter the US illegally through Mexico in October of this year alone. Between October 2008 and the end of August 2009, the Tucson Sector arrested 261 Chinese nationals according to Patrol Agent Colleen Agle. In the previous year only 30 had been captured. That is an 1100% increase in one year for Arizona. Texas has also seen a major increase in illegal Chinese traffic.

This modern day phenomenon, while relatively recent is not new at all. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a huge wave of Chinese immigrants arriving illegally across the Mexican border. They were coming to work on the railroads and many returned to Mexico during the CA persecutions to form large communities. Mexicali, just across the border from Calexico, California has the largest population of Chinese in the country.

Tombstone, AZ was known at the time as the epicenter of Chinese illegal immigration in the US. Ranchers there had "Chinese Cellars" built under their homes where they would hide the illegals during the day and transport them at night. Some things never change.

What is fueling this increase today has much to do with political persecution in China and the relaxation of Visa laws in places like Ecuador,where they are seeing upwards of 75 Chinese emigrating to that country each day. It is not for the cuisine. Chinese organized crime is said to charge $70,000 per person to smuggle these Chinese refugees into the US and estimates are it has become a BILLION dollar business for them.

In 2006 alone, DHS reported that 39,000 Chinese nationals were awaiting deportation in the US back to China. Of those only 300 remained in custody and the rest were released on their own recognizance awaiting legal proceedings.

While crossing the deserts of AZ is unappealing, it is still the preferred method though many are also being smuggled in by sea. Ports like Seattle and San Francisco routinely fins dozens of immigrants hiding in shipping containers.The journey can be treacherous either way but the payoff for those who succeed appears to be worth it. There is no shortage of potential Chinese illegal immigrants at this moment and with Ecuador offering unfettered Visa access to 130 countries around the world, it is only a matter of time before others take advantage of the slow boat to Arizona.

An earlier article translated by NAFBPO tells us more about Chinese illegal aliens.
El Universal (Mexico City) 10/20/09

“Central America is a bridge for illegals” –

(Article’s sub-headline): “More and more African and Asian migrants arrive in the area, smuggled by Chinese and Colombian bands, heading to the U.S.”

Chinese and Colombian mafias, allied with the Central American “coyotes” have enlarged the hugely profitable, massive illegal traffic of persons who seek to enter the United States and Canada by land, via Mexico, and have converted Central America into the hallway of Africans and Asians – and not only Latin Americans and persons from the Caribbean, who face a dangerous journey with an uncertain outcome, after paying large amounts of money. The head of Panama’s Immigration Service said that this phenomenon could open up a thresher for the infiltration of international terrorism due to the illegal entry of fundamentalist African Muslims.

The Africans fly from South Africa to Brazil and go by land to Colombia, Central America and Mexico to be able to get into the United States and Canada. Due to controls in Costa Rica and Panama, routes change and sometimes they are taken by sea from the Colombian ports of Barranquilla and Cartagena, on the Caribbean, toward Nicaragua or Honduras, so that they may enter Belize, and from there, to Mexico, the United States and Canada. The minimum charge per each illegal migrant is over 7 thousand dollars. The head of Costa Rica’s Immigration and Foreigners’ Affairs, Mario Zamora, said that in Nicaragua and Honduras “they have social networks that assist them and collaborate with them during the trip, and in the case of Belize’s black population they wouldn’t stand out” and that once in Belize they obtain the trip to Mexico. He added: “The phenomenon continues. From information we’ve been able to obtain, we know that there are some two thousand persons of African origin in Colombia and the southern portion of Central America, which demonstrates that the detentions have been minimal in comparison with the official figures we have been furnished.”

Nearly 275 Africans are detained in immigration housing facilities in Central America, but the number could be higher because there is no precise official tally. Of the total, most are from Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana and Somalia, but also included are citizens of Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, who entered as part of the “African” network. The phenomenon began to be detected in 2008 and the key bases of the contraband operated in Costa Rica and Panama.

In August of this year, Costa Rican immigration police gave the smuggling ring a hard blow and captured three Colombians who were attempting to have a numerous group of Africans to go ashore at the Costa Rican port of Limon; they’re now accused of international people trafficking. Zamora explained that one of the causes for trafficking of Africans and Asians in Latin America is that Europe has reinforced its migratory and security controls.

In the case of Chinese, the structure is controlled by a Chinese Mafia known as “Red Dragon”, and that it charges up to some 60 thousand dollars per person to take them from Hong Kong to Paris and Bogota by air, and then they choose various options to attempt to reach the United States. One method of the traffic is to hide the Chinese in ships that sail from Panamanian ports to the United States. In other instances, the Chinese are taken by land to Panama and then by vessel to Guatemala so that they may enter Mexico and continue toward the United States. One of the routes detected is the one which takes them to Ecuador, and from the port of Guayaquil they’re sent to Guatemala so they may continue their northbound trip on Mexican soil. The maritime trip from Colombia to Nicaraguan and Honduran ports on the Caribbean is also used, from where they are sent by land to Belize, Guatemala and Mexico.

Costa Rican sources have confirmed that the Chinese mafia has made death threats against immigration officials because of smuggling operations being undone. Panamanian judicial sources warned about the danger of the Red Dragon, since the Chinese communities “are very reserved” in their culture, and for fear of becoming kidnapping and extortion victims of the gangs.

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