There's An Alarming Amount of Chinese Migrants Being Apprehended at the Southern Border

Sarah Arnold / Townhall Tipsheet

Hundreds of illegal Chinese migrants were apprehended at the southern border this week, resulting in Chinese immigration being on track to break records. 

This week, over 200 illegal Chinese nationals were apprehended in San Diego, as President Joe Biden's immigration crisis continues to threaten the nation's national security risk. 

Over the last three days, over 452 Chinese illegal migrants have been detained in California— exceeding the more than 450 apprehended in fiscal year 2021. 

The 2023 fiscal year saw over 37,000 Chinese migrants encountered at the border, with a stunning 20,000 more nationals crossing the southern border since October. 

Since Biden took office in 2021, the number of apprehensions of Chinese migrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally skyrocketed from being in the single digits to thousands every month— resulting in a dramatic rise in Chinese apprehensions since the president's first month in office until now.

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) warned that the influx of Chinese migrants is a "massive" national security risk for the United States. Read more, see XS and videos here.

Bibi's post-war plan: No reconstruction in Gaza without demilitarization

Brak Ravid / AXIOS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's post-war plan for Gaza, which was unveiled Thursday, doesn't rule out a role for the Palestinian Authority and stresses Israel will only allow reconstruction to take place after the enclave is demilitarized.

Why it matters: It's the first time Netanyahu has presented any written position on his plans for the day after the war in Gaza. But the principles laid out in Thursday's document are short on concrete details and largely based on Netanyahu's public statements from the last few months.

State of play: The document, also provided to ministers of Netanyahu's Cabinet, presents several principles as a basis for discussions on the issue, Netanyahu's office said.

• A senior Netanyahu aide said the goal was to present principles that would get the broadest consensus possible but said the consultations in the Cabinet will likely lead to changes before the policy is approved.

The big picture: The principles in the document broadly address several key areas for post-war Gaza and Israel.

NASA is back on the moon — with the first commercial lunar landing ever

Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-Johnsen / BUSINESS INSIDER

• NASA and Intuitive Machines' IM-1 mission landed on the moon on Thursday.

• This is NASA's first return to the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.

• The landing helps catapult the US into a 21st-century space race to the moon's south pole.

An American moon lander touched down on the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years on Thursday.

The uncrewed Odysseus lander, made by the Houston company Intuitive Machines in collaboration with NASA, claimed a major victory not just for the US but for the space industry at large: It's the first commercial spacecraft to ever land on the moon without crashing.

The past five years have racked up a series of failed moon landings — by Russia, India, Japan, an Israeli nonprofit, a Japanese company, and, just last month, the NASA collaborator Astrobotic. Everyone is scrambling to get...See Xs, photos, and video here.

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