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In order to escape being disappeared in China, the Chinese risk their lives entering the US only to end up being disappeared in Oklahoma to be exploited.

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GROSS: In order to actually grow the weed, a lot of workers are exploited. You compare some of the workers growing this weed for the Chinese mafia to indentured servants. Many of them are immigrants. Can you describe the labor force for this illicit industry?

ROTELLA: Sure. I mean, these are thousands of workers, most of them themselves Chinese immigrants, many of whom come across the Mexican border. I interviewed one who, you know - it's classic odyssey, coming from China all the way through South America, up across the Mexican border, gets caught, applies for asylum, gets released, makes his way to New York, and he hears that that there's work in the marijuana farms of Oklahoma. So he shows up. He's, you know, in Oklahoma and gets to work and he finds, you know, hundreds and thousands like him. And they are working on these farms.

You know, at best, they're working very long hours for low pay. And at worst they're abused. Their wages are - you know, they don't get paid. There's physical abuse. There's control over them in terms of, you know, being held sometimes at these farms. It's a very difficult, murky world. It's very hard to enforce the protections for workers. You also have prostitution, where there was a case in Oklahoma, for example, where you had, you know, a brothel set up where women - you know, there were human trafficking charges because they were being forced into prostitution to serve the managers and the administrators of these farms at this brothel in Oklahoma related to the marijuana industry.

GROSS: And in terms of working conditions, you describe how law enforcement busted one of these illegal grows, and they thought they were stepping in mud, but it was human excrement. And that's...

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I doubt the latest wave of Chinese migrants are being exploited by the CCP because the CCP is already capable of sending spies to the US through our tourist visa program and can still refuse to take them back if they are caught in America. Due to Americans' addiction to Chinese-American food, these new migrants like prior generations of Chinese migrants will probably be the next generation to carry the torch to keep Chinese-American restaurants alive maybe another 50 years as each prior generation assimilates into the fabric of American society. As their children witness how grueling it is to work in a family-run Chinese-American restaurant, they instead pursue white collar work and become productive members of society unlike other illegal foreign migrants who are straining the local homeless shelters and welfare system to which the Chinese are not exploiting. My only thoughts are that these new Chinese political asylum seekers should repopulate once thriving Chinatowns across America that were deliberately destroyed with the historical malicious intent of an ethnic-cleansing holocaust due to past public policies that failed to recognize that a thriving economically viable local Chinatown also symbiotically revitalizes a dying American downtown core which is ubiquitous and well documented all over the country.

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It Begins… Chinese Migrants are Entering America

Interesting, the CCP only wants those who qualify for US political asylum returned back to China.
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The Chinese migrants risking it all for the American dream | 101 East Documentary

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Chinese Migrants Seek Political and Economic Asylum in US

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You could also get in trouble for speaking Cantonese.

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A growing number of Chinese have entered the United States this year through the Darién Gap, exceeded only by Venezuelans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians, according to Panamanian immigration authorities.

It is a dangerous route once used mostly by Cubans and Haitians, and to a lesser extent people from Nepal, India, Cameroon and Congo. The Chinese are fleeing the world’s second-largest economy.

Most of them followed a playbook circulating on social media: Cross the border through the Darién Gap, surrender to U.S. border control officers, get detained in immigration jails, and apply for asylum citing a credible fear if returned to China. Many will be released within days. When their asylum applications are accepted, they can work and make a new life in the United States.

In Mr. Xi’s China, anyone could become a target of the state. You could get in trouble for being a Christian, Muslim, Uyghur, Tibetan or Mongolian.