China and the U.S. has been confirmed to be reestablishing and improving their contact following the two leaders’ meeting in California late 2023. Beijing and Washington have quietly resumed cooperation on the deportation of illegal Chinese immigrants in the U.S.
A surged in Chinese Immigrants entering the country illegal from the border of Mexico-United States was the result of failed diplomatic and suspended cooperation with China in 2022. In 2023, it was resulted that more than 37,000 Chinese immigrants were arrested, 10 times the number compared to last year.
The Chinese foreign ministry said that Beijing was “willing to maintain dialogue and cooperation in area of immigration enforcement with the U.S.” and would begin to accept deported Chinese nationals. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas further confirmed that cooperation between the U.S. and China will be reestablish, stating that he had “an engagement” with his Chinese counterpart. Mayorkas also stated that there was already a deportation flight to China for “the first time in a number of years.” Without cooperation from the Chinese Government, illegal Chinese nationals cannot be sent back to their country.
In November 2023, President Joe Biden had a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Woodside, California in order to reestablish cooperation between two countries. Since then, the number of Chinese migrants arrested by the U.S. border patrol peaked in December but it showed a downward trend in the first three months of 2024.
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