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In a ritzy enclave of South Florida, Chinese migrants are reaching the ground by boat, leading to investigation into human smuggling networks.
Coral Gables is a picturesque city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, known for its Mediterranean Renaissance architecture, wooded streets and lush landscapes. A neighborhood of Coral Gables, Gables Statures, is classified as the most expensive real estate market, according to Zillow data.
But in recent months, the dazzling city has seen an increase in Chinese migrant interceptions.
The increase in the city is representative of the influx of Chinese citizens of the state of Sunshine since 2020, according to US customs and protection data. UU. In 2020, Florida’s border protection officers interacted with 406 Chinese migrants and by 2024, that number increased to 723, an increase of 78%.
Apartment buildings on the coast of Deering Bay Yacht and Country Club. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group through Getty Images)
Fox News Digital spoke with Eric Brown, a green beech and founder and CEO of Empire Consulting, about the increase in migrants in the city of southern Florida.
“Coral Gables is adjacent to international river routes, and with Cuba just 90 miles from the Florida coast, it makes sense,” Brown said.
In January, only a few days before President Donald Trump He was sworn in office: a group of more than 30 migrants, most of them Chinese citizens, were found inside a U-Haul truck.
The Chief of Police of Coral Gables, Edward James Hudak Jr., said the department issued a bolus, a surveillance alert, for the truck and a Toyota car after a resident reported the suspicious vehicles.
A U-Haul truck where Chinese migrants were found is towed to the scene in Coral Gables, Florida. (WSVN-TV)
The vehicles were arrested by the officers, and the woman who was allegedly kidnapped was taken from the Toyota. Between U-Haul and Toyota, the police found more than 20 Chinese migrants, a man from Cuba and a woman from Ecuador.
“We believe that these people were brought here by water,” said the boss. “They were probably left, we assumed that somewhere around the southern end of Coral Gables, and approached the truck where they were loaded.”
Multiple law agents processed a group of illegal migrants, mainly from China, police said, early on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, in Coral Gables. Two smuggers were arrested, one from Cuba and one from Puerto Rico, said Police of Coral Gables. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune news service through Getty Images)
Brown said he believes that migrants are entering illegally through the United States because The northern border It has a “little more security.”
“It is also much easier to fly to a South American country and move from smuggling than through Canada,” he said. “And human smuggers are using a road established through South America and Central America to take migrants safely.”
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At the end of January, Florida police intercepted dozens of Chinese citizens in Coral Gables. Two smuggers were arrested, one from Cuba and one from Puerto Rico, said Police of Coral Gables.
“For the second time in just over a week, a very alert resident saw suspicious activities that was later determined that it was an illegal entry in our country,” said Hudak. “They called the coral police and in a matter of minutes, our police units arrived in the area and arrested 26 Chinese citizens and two men (a Puerto Rican and a Cuban) in two separate trucks.”
Multiple law agents processed a group of illegal migrants, mainly from China, police said on January 28, 2025. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune news service through Getty Images)
Brown pointed out that the border initially saw an influx of family groups that fled to the United States from China, but Now, two thirds of Chinese migrants arriving in the United States are single men of military age, travel alone and claim that they do not speak English.
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“There must be a better discussion between state and national levels about sharing resources, increasing air -based technology on the border,” he said. “For example, the use of surveillance drones and update technology could be a good place to start.”
Fox News Digital has communicated with the Police Department of Coral Gables and the National Security Department to Comment.
