DO THE RESEARCH.

Legal Insurrection's Mary Chastain discovers a Great Wall with a gap in it.  "Chinese Nationals Fastest Growing Group of Border Crossers."  I'm not troubled by the news.

"The more onerous the legal admission procedures are, the larger is the pool of potential illegal migrants, and under some circumstances that pool will be more skewed toward people with desirable skills."  That's one of the not-yet-answered empirical questions.  Depending on your attitude toward entering the United States without proper papers, those young men from all over the world are "military age males" or "potential terrorists" or "prime-age workers."  Among the future research questions might be "what is the effect of China's one-child policy on the marriage potential for Chinese young men?"  Now pick the sub-topic: in China, in Siberia, in the United States.

It might be that either family prospects or employment prospects or both are better in The Land of Opportunity.

Quite a few of the Chinese nationals come from the middle class. They arrive with roller bags filled with clothes and other items.

One national took 40 days to arrive at the border: Thailand, Morocco, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

China?  They'd just as soon be rid of those guys.

However, the U.S. told around 36,000 Chinese illegal immigrants to leave. China won’t allow them to return. The U.S. cannot force China’s hand.

That means in 2023, the U.S. gave 55% of the Chinese illegal immigrants amnesty. Only 14% of those from other countries got amnesty.

I'm not sure what she means by "amnesty," being given a court date to appear in several years isn't amnesty; not being issued a work permit isn't amnesty; not knowing when the clock can start on your five years' residence before you can apply for citizenship isn't amnesty.  Nor does it do much good to suggest that it's part of a Democrat plot to import more voters.  Refugees from China might be logical voters for the politics of free minds and free markets, and a less convoluted path to legal status for immigrants, plus a less convoluted path to citizenship for people granted residency, might be the quickest way to new voters for less onerous government.