Gabriel Noronha, executive director of Polaris National Security, said Chinese foreign nationals are easily entering the United States through the southern border, instead of taking the usual routes of flying in through airports that require visas. Noronha made her statement on the Federal Newswire China Desk podcast.
"There are hundreds if not thousands now of Chinese individuals coming across the border," said Noronha. "Instead of going through San Francisco airport or Dulles, you can just go into Mexico and come up the border." Highlighting the absence of visa requirements for this method of entry, he added, "You don't need a visa and you can still get in."
According to the Federal Newswire, Noronha, before becoming the executive director of Polaris National Security, served as a special advisor for the State Department's Iran action group and special assistant for the Senate Armed Services Committee.
In his interview on the China Desk podcast, Noronha said the national security issues are "existential," requiring bipartisan effort. He said China poses "a whole-society threat from the [perspective of] military, intelligence, surveillance, and public health." It is important to educate Americans about the threat of China, Noronha said.
Noronha spoke about the fentanyl crisis and its connection to China and the souther border. He said he found a website, maidenchchina.com, that shows how China can ship the precursor chemicals to produce fentanyl all around the world.
In a documentary posted on X by the account "Muckraker," Chinese "secret hotels" were discovered along a route to the U.S. southern border through South America and into the Darien Gap. The documentary revealed a "staging point for Chinese illegal aliens headed to the United States" in the city of Pasto, Colombia. Chinese nationals fly in to Quito, Ecuador, originally, and make their way north. The documentary also noted many of the Chinese nationals were military-aged males.
