So What Does China Do If You Cross The Border Illegally? By MARIO CAVOLO Jan 14 2025

CounterPoint China on Customs Border Policy – Would You Illegally Enter and Settle Down In A Country Knowing You Might Get Deported 4 Years Later?…Perhaps Only If Someone Paid You To Do So…

Let’s compare. I live in China. I happen to also have a green card. If I lived here without a proper visa to enter and reside in the country, I would be fined and told to leave. No, I wouldn’t go to jail but I would be told I have to leave and perhaps, can’t return for 2 years, or something like that. The rules vary from case to case but in general, that’s how it works.

Consider, if I want to go to Italy for a visit, I certainly can. But if I want to live there long term, then extra resident visa permissions and rules apply.

Do these scenarios which are typical in every country around the world sound reasonable?

Ok, so then how about this next scenario.

I enter China illegally across the Vietnam/China border. Upon entering, I am sorta’ kinda’ arrested by China border patrol authorities who don’t care whether I might be a criminal, they put me on a plane to Chengdu, arrange a place for me to stay and give me $1000 / month to live because my life back in the country I came from is difficult because that’s what I told them. They then even let me vote in local elections because ID is not required to vote (Yes friends, China does have local elections)

Does this make any sense at all to anyone?

Hard working citizens of countries all around the world starting with the United States, UK, Germany, Italy, France, mainly the G7 countries, are having a hard time understanding why their own governments are putting the interests of strangers from far away lands far ahead of their own interests and needs.

For countless reasons, many conclude its hard to believe the Biden administration, the U.S. govt or any of these govts have the best interests of their citizens in mind. Most of us wonder why they are intentionally trying to destabilize the society in this manner.

Nowhere in U.S. policy is that more obvious than by the terribly complex and flip flop evolving illegal immigration issues further complicated by how the matter has been weaponized by both sides of the political spectrum.

Its even crazier to consider that in the U.S., when an illegal immigrant even commits a crime such as theft or assault, they are treated with kid gloves, often not even arrested by the police who are under orders to simply let them go while if an actual American citizen did the same, they would be arrested and thrown in jail.

As you may know, incoming President Trump intends to turn this situation around and the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill by 264 votes to 159 aimed at detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants charged with misdemeanors.

So again. I live in China. If I knew someone who was here illegally and also committed a theft, I know without question they would be arrested and deported. In my own crazy mind, and probably yours too, that makes perfect sense.

“The new U.S. House bill requires federal law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused of misdemeanors such as theft and expands the categories of crimes that can lead to deportation. It also gives state attorneys general the power to sue federal officials for security risks caused by illegal immigration…It is reported that the bill is named after Laken Riley, a student who was killed in Georgia. The murderer was an immigrant who entered the United States illegally and was arrested for theft but was not detained.”

While every country has the right to make its own laws and policies we can only hope and expect that its government officials would fulfill their responsibility to their citizens in good faith.

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