2023 was the first year on record that migrants from countries other than Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras made up more that 50% of those apprehended at the southern border of the US. An increasing number of people from Venezuela, Russia, China, India, Turkey, and troubled nations in Africa and Asia are arriving at the southern border. At the same time. another 40,000 migrants from India and China crossed into the US from Canada.

"Roughly 70% of asylum applications from Chinese migrants between 2003 and 2023 were granted, suggesting that their reasons for leaving China were mostly credible." Many of them came from Hong Kong and Xinjiang (Uyghur). "Rather than plotting to undermine America, plenty seem to be seeking freedom."

It is election season in the US. We will be hearing a lot about asylum seekers and refugees. I share this to cut through the misinformation with substantiated information.

Source: "Over the Wall", The Economist, January 20th 2004 issue.