Niner
05-06-2013, 06:59 AM
I saw some spot on the news the other night that got me to wondering.
It was a piece on the porousness of our Southern Boarder and "Illegal Immigrants".
The reporter was standing at somekindof emergency relief station where our government has a distress beacon that one could initiate, a 5 gal container of water, and a sign in three languages. ONE of them was Chinese.
This is the first I have heard of there being a "problem" with Chinese coming across the boarder. I would have thought they'd just need to ask for political asylum like the Russians used to do????
Evidently this is not a new thing as evidenced by this 2010 article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/us/23smuggle.html?_r=0
.....and, it appears, ....not just US destinations...
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1034
I had no idea. Guess I live an isolated life.
It was a piece on the porousness of our Southern Boarder and "Illegal Immigrants".
The reporter was standing at somekindof emergency relief station where our government has a distress beacon that one could initiate, a 5 gal container of water, and a sign in three languages. ONE of them was Chinese.
This is the first I have heard of there being a "problem" with Chinese coming across the boarder. I would have thought they'd just need to ask for political asylum like the Russians used to do????
Evidently this is not a new thing as evidenced by this 2010 article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/us/23smuggle.html?_r=0
.....and, it appears, ....not just US destinations...
http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=1034
I had no idea. Guess I live an isolated life.