{"id":2683,"date":"2026-05-09T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:31:27","slug":"reuters-china-puts-freeze-on-ices-deportations-of-chinese-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfawbn.com\/home\/2026\/05\/09\/reuters-china-puts-freeze-on-ices-deportations-of-chinese-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: China Puts Freeze on ICE\u2019s Deportations of Chinese Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The United States may block Chinese visitors if China\u2019s government keeps blocking the deportation of roughly 30,000 Chinese illegal migrants who have been ordered for deportation by federal courts, says Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warning comes shortly before President Donald Trump\u2019s trip to China on May 14-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After accepting about 3,000 deportees via charter and commercial flights in early 2025, China has scaled back cooperation in the past six months, the senior U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly about administration plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China \u201crefuses to fully cooperate with the United States to take back its citizens,\u201d the official said, calling it a violation of China\u2019s international obligations and responsibility toward its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are now more than 100,000 undocumented Chinese nationals in the U.S., the official said. More than 30,000 have final orders of removal [from judges], and of those, authorities have detained more than 1,500 awaiting deportation. Most in this last category have committed other crimes, the official said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. cannot fly migrants back to their home countries without the countries\u2019 permission. Many countries hinder their migrants\u2019 return, including India, Laos, and Vietnam, partly because illegal migrants send billions of dollars back to their homelands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the Chinese illegal migrants were welcomed by President Joe Biden\u2019s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s team also refused to pressure China to take back even criminal migrants who had completed their jail sentences. The inaction was likely driven by the close alliance of Biden\u2019s political team with donors on Wall Street, who opposed any threats to lucrative trade with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump has established a pro-American policy against illegal migration, which Reuters described as \u201chard-line immigration policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not clear how hard the Trump team will press China to cooperate with ICE\u2019s effort to deport China\u2019s army of illegal migrants and of the many Chinese migrants who have overstayed their student, tourist, or work visas. Reuters reported:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The official said that if China didn\u2019t increase cooperation on deportations, the United States would consider increased cash bonds accompanying visa applications, as well as denying more visas and blocking more entries at the border.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Many of Mayorkas\u2019 Chinese migrants joined criminal gangs, often to establish<\/a> a Chinese-style underground banking system to aid the Mexican cartels\u2019 drug smuggling. The criminal partnership between Mayorkas\u2019 Chinese migrants and the cartels has helped to kill tens of thousands of young Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Chinese illegals find off-the-books jobs at businesses in Chinese enclaves<\/a> in California, New York, and Texas, where they can easily hide and work among legalized migrants from China. In Ohio, for example, legal investors from China run a large glass factory that has been formally accused by Trump\u2019s deputies of importing<\/a> many illegal workers from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cApproximately 239,000 [Chinese illegal migrants] were unauthorized as of mid-2022,\u201d according to a 2025 report by a pro-migration group, the Migration Policy Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many other Chinese migrants arrive legally, often via H-1B white-collar visa programs that are being used to sideline American college graduates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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