Biden Admin Watered Down Vetting Process For Chinese Illegal Immigrants, Email Shows

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The Biden administration drastically simplified the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants in April 2023, according to an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The April 2023 email, which was sent by a CBP supervisor to a โ€œmaster listโ€ of about 500 Border Patrol agents, instructs CBP officials to radically reduce the number of interview questions for Chinese migrants apprehended after illegally crossing into the country from roughly 40 to just five. The โ€œheadquarters guidanceโ€ came as border agents were overwhelmed with near-record numbers of illegal crossings.

This scaling back of the interview process fast-tracked the releasing of Chinese illegal immigrants into the U.S. while making it more difficult for CBP agents to identify national security threats, J.J. Carrell, a retired CBP deputy patrol agent in charge, told the DCNF after reviewing the email.

โ€œThis policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants โ€” this doesnโ€™t make America safer,โ€ Carrell said. โ€œThe final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the U.S.โ€

โ€œThis is just the government covering their ass, so they can say they vetted,โ€ said Carrell. โ€œI believe the government recognizes the threat of Chinese soldiers and spies that are pouring into America, and they want to try and identify these individuals. However, the same government does not want to stop the flow of illegal aliens or Chinese nationals โ€” just the โ€˜bad ones,โ€™ which is impossible.โ€

While previously agents might spend hours vetting a single Chinese illegal immigrant, the new guidance simplifies the vetting process by reducing the number of questions that agents are required to ask, thereby speeding up the flow of Chinese illegal immigrants into the U.S., Carrell said.

The former law enforcement official who provided the email to the DCNF said human smuggling operations quickly adapted to these new guidelines, coaching Chinese illegal immigrants on how to answer CBPโ€™s shorter list of questions.

โ€œIt was almost immediate where [the Chinese illegal immigrants] knew what to say and what not to say,โ€ said the former official, who requested anonymity in fear of U.S. government retribution.

By Philip Lenczycki

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DCNF Reporter Describes How Chinese Illegal Immigrants Get Fast-Tracked To US

A Daily Caller News Foundation reporter described how the Biden administration is fast-tracking Chinese illegal immigrants into the United States Tuesday.

The vetting process for the illegal immigrants from China was drastically reduced from roughly 40 questions to five in April 2023, an email obtained by the DCNF shows. Human smuggling operations have begun coaching Chinese illegal immigrants on how to answer the simplified questions, according to a former law enforcement official who provided the DCNF with the email.

โ€œAt the heart of the email are a number of changes to the way that border agents are to vet Chinese illegal immigrants,โ€ DCNF investigative reporter Philip Lenczycki told โ€œBannon War Roomโ€ host Natalie Winters. โ€œThey fall into two categories: The first, which is in the email we linked to and which we tweeted out, is that the agents are no longer required to perform whatโ€™s called phone downloads, which is when they encounter an illegal and they then take their phone, plug it into a machine, and cross-reference their data against a database containing known terrorist organizations and hostile entities. Secondly, they have taken what was a pre-existing list of approximately 40 questions, what they referred to as an in-depth interview, and they reduced that down to five โ€˜basic questionsโ€™ that theyโ€™d ask the Chinese illegal immigrants they encounter.โ€

According to data released by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 2,045,838 illegal immigrants were encountered in fiscal year 2023, following 2,206,436 encounters in fiscal year 2022 and 1,659,206 in fiscal year 2021.

By Harold Hutchison

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