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Ritzy Florida enclave becomes Chinese smuggling hot spot as former military identifies driving force (Coral Gables)
Fox News via MSN ^ | 3/31/25 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten

Posted on 03/31/2025 3:56:54 AM PDT by Libloather

In a ritzy enclave of South Florida, Chinese migrants are coming ashore via boat, leading to an investigation into human smuggling networks.

Coral Gables is a picturesque city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, known for its Mediterranean Revival architecture, tree-lined streets and lush landscapes. One Coral Gables neighborhood, Gables Estates, is ranked as the most expensive housing market in the country, according to data by Zillow.

But in recent months, the dazzling city has seen an uptick of Chinese migrant interceptions.

The city's uptick is representative of the Sunshine State's influx of Chinese nationals since 2020, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. In 2020, Florida Border Protection officers interacted with 406 Chinese migrants and by 2024, that number jumped to 723 – a 78% increase.

Fox News Digital spoke with Eric Brown, a retired Green Beret and the founder and CEO of Imperio Consulting, about the increase of migrants in the South Florida town.

"Coral Gables is adjacent to international waterways, and with Cuba just 90 miles from the coastline of Florida, it just makes sense," Brown said.

In January – just days before President Donald Trump was sworn into office – a group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, was found inside a U-Haul van.

Coral Gables Police Chief Edward James Hudak Jr. said the department issued a BOLO – a be on the lookout alert – for the van and a Toyota car after a resident reported the suspicious vehicles.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2024; 202501; aliens; china; chinese; coralgables; cuba; florida; humantrafficking; imperioconsulting; maritimesecurity; miamidade; military; smuggling; suspiciousvehicle; uhaul
Saw a YouTube video about the whole deal. The chicoms smuggle in whatever it takes to manufacture fentanyl. The Mehicans convert it by using acetone. Very healthy.
1 posted on 03/31/2025 3:56:54 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

later


2 posted on 03/31/2025 3:58:10 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Libloather

Where is Carl Hiassen style Floriduh corruption linked with Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities and Back to Blood. You can’t say you can’t make this stuff up. They already did - well hit was sort of histerical fiction that turned out to be true.


3 posted on 03/31/2025 4:50:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Meth and fentanyl

Both require very volatile and explosive chemicals for manufacture.

Just the ticket for a barely educated and low skill workforce.


4 posted on 03/31/2025 4:54:46 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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our forefathers caught nazis sneaking up on the beaches, but now we just have a full on invasion of chinese and every other natoinality around the world, they just show up, raid our tresuary, vote in our elections, change the national culture and drown out Americans in social services, get on the soc. sec. rolls.... it’s a full stop invasion and our own government applauds it because “muh diversity!”


5 posted on 03/31/2025 5:04:44 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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