More Chinese Migrants Are Journeying to the U.S. Border to Seek Asylum

Elliot Spagat and Diddi Tang for the Associated Press report that increasing numbers of Chinese migrants to the United States on a perilous route that has become increasingly popular with the help of social media. “Chinese people were the fourth-highest nationality, after Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, and Haitians, crossing the Darién Gap during the first nine months of this year, according to Panamanian immigration authorities. Chinese asylum-seekers who spoke to The Associated Press, as well as observers, say they are seeking to escape an increasingly repressive political climate and bleak economic prospects.”

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