A border security expert has raised alarms over the significant influx of Chinese illegal immigrants entering the United States during the Biden administration, highlighting it as a “national security concern.”

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent 122 illegal immigrants back to China on June 3. Among these individuals were those with convictions for murder, drug trafficking, rape, and human smuggling. These deportees were transported via a “special high-risk charter flight,” according to officials.

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice charged seven Chinese nationals with allegedly running a multimillion-dollar marijuana trafficking operation. The Justice Department reported that the suspects smuggled illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border to work in marijuana cultivation facilities.

Hundreds of migrants reach the Mexico-U.S. border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, March 29, 2024. (David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“The numbers rose rapidly during the Biden administration. I mean, pre-Biden, Customs and Border Protection would see about 1,000 Chinese nationals a month nationwide, whether that was at the ports of entry or between ports of entry. And, during Biden’s four years, that rose rapidly to 2,000, up to 7,000 a month. It even hit over 8,000 one month in December of 2023. And most of these were between the ports of entry,” Ries said. 

Ries fears the Chinese Communist Party was using the southern border as a “tactic” against the U.S. during former President Biden’s administration.

Red flags flutter in front of the Great Hall of the People before the annual two sessions March 4, 2022, in Beijing, China.  (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

“Given the many tactics that the Chinese Communist Party uses against the U.S. — whether that is sending fentanyl precursor ingredients to Mexico to be smuggled into the U.S., killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, COVID-19 from Wuhan, spy balloons, buying farmland near military bases — we have to assume that the CCP took advantage of the open border during Biden’s years and sent many Chinese nationals with mal-intent,” Ries said.