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The "walking route": How an underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the U.S.
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"In the first 11 months of 2023, more than 31,000 Chinese citizens were picked up by law enforcement crossing illegally into the US from Mexico, government data shows — compared with an average of roughly 1,500 per year over the preceding decade."
"Many who left point to a struggle to survive. Three years of Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions left people across China out of work — and disillusioned with the ruling Communist Party's increasingly tight grip on all aspects of life under Xi. ... Others nod to restrictions on personal life in China."
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The ‘walking route’: How an underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the US | CNN
They come with backpacks carrying a few spare changes of clothes and whatever money and phones they weren’t robbed of by criminals or cartels along the way, arriving at the United States-Mexico border