As economy falters, more Chinese migrants take a perilous journey to the U.S. border to seek asylum
By ELLIOT SPAGAT and DIDI TANG, ELLIOT SPAGAT and DIDI TANG, Associated Press
Published: October 30, 2023, 1:57pm
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A man from China gets a bowl of oatmeal from a volunteer as he waits with others for processing to apply for asylum after crossing the border with Mexico, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, near Jacumba, Calif. A major influx of Chinese migration to the United States on a relatively new and perilous route through Panama's Dari?n Gap jungle has become increasingly popular thanks to social media. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Photo Gallery
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The young Chinese man looked lost and exhausted when Border Patrol agents left him at a transit station. Deng Guangsen, 28, had spent the last two months traveling to San Diego from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, through seven countries on plane, bus and foot, including traversing Panama’s dangerous Darién Gap jungle.
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