US Working to Hold Beijing Accountable for Not Taking Back 40,000 Chinese Illegal Immigrants: State Department

US Working to Hold Beijing Accountable for Not Taking Back 40,000 Chinese Illegal Immigrants: State Department
The U.S. Department of State in Washington on July 22, 2019. Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
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U.S. agencies are working to hold the regime in Beijing accountable for its refusal to cooperate in the removal of Chinese illegal immigrants in the United States, a State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times.

Since October 2017, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has made 1,300 requests to Beijing to provide travel documents needed to expel Chinese nationals under final orders of removal—only to have them go unanswered, according to a January Department of Homeland Security report (pdf).
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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