U.S. Afraid to Call China on Undeportable Illegals: ‘They Do Not Want These People Back’

Illegal immigrants, shady individuals, violent criminals, and diplomatic strain.
The issue plagues America, but this part of the problem is not with Mexico or Latin American nations, but rather China.
It is just one more element that is stoking tensions between China and the United States, with detailed reports about the Asian superpower giving bureaucratic excuses for refusing the return of thousands of individuals that I. C. E. and Homeland Security have marked for deportation, but can’t due to unfulfilled paperwork.
It appears that China, well, simply doesn’t want them back. As Reuters reports:
In cities across America, U. S. immigration agents arrested more than two dozen Chinese nationals with unfulfilled deportation orders, telling them that after years of delay, China was finally taking steps to provide the paperwork needed to expel them from the U. S.
But, not for the first time, China failed to provide the necessary documents, and three months later not one of those arrested has been deported, and many have been released from custody. They form part of abacklog of nearly 39,000 people Chinese nationals awaiting deportation for violating U. S. immigration laws, 900 of them classed as violent offenders, according to immigration officials.
The issue, which is likely to come up during a state visit to Washington later this month by Chinese President Xi Jinping, has further strained a U. S.-China relationship already frayed by tensions over economic policy, suspected Chinese cyber hacking and Beijing’s growing military assertiveness.

This post was published at shtfplan on September 11th, 2015.