Important Takeaways:

• The number of Chinese nationals is set to break records this fiscal year
• There were more than 1,000 apprehensions of Chinese nationals crossing the U.S. border illegally in the last week
• Overall, across the border, numbers have increased dramatically since FY 21. There were 1,970 encounters in FY 2022, over 24,000 in FY 2023 and so far, there have been over 24,200 encounters so far this fiscal year.
• House Republicans warned that the Chinese Communist Party “wants the chaos and devastation” that comes from fentanyl coming in to the U.S. Illicit fentanyl is primarily made using Chinese precursors by Mexican cartels and then moved across the southern land border
• The majority of the Chinese border crossers are single adult males of military age.

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