Chinese officials and Triads flooding illegal immigrants into United States: Canadian Report
Unheeded Warnings: The Bureau investigates buried CCP-Triad national security reports and current lessons for the United States
In 1993 a confidential Canadian report from Hong Kong warned that an unprecedented flood of illegal immigration from Mainland China was threatening North America because China’s government was collaborating with drug-smuggling Triads and corrupt Latin American officials in the multi-billion-dollar business of trafficking human cargo into the United States.
A covering memo explained the Consular report was contentious and “highly sensitive” but also included powerful evidence, as U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had informed Canada a Chinese Communist leader, the Governor of Fujian, had ties with Hong Kong’s largest Triad.
Details of the lengthy study, Passports of Convenience, Corrupt Officials and Triad Involvement in Illegal Immigration, have never been reported.
But its classified information is timely as the United States experiences exponential surges in migration from China through its border with Mexico, evidently involving the same global smuggling networks explained in Canadian documents obtained by The Bureau.
It’s also politically explosive, indicating Washington and Ottawa knew 31 years ago that Fujian governor Jia Qinling, who eventually sat beside Xi Jinping on Beijing’s Politburo Standing Committee, had alleged ties to human trafficking that endangered the United States.
Adding to the report’s sensitivities, in 1993 Xi Jinping held senior Communist Party posts in Fujian before succeeding Jia Qinling as governor in 1999 en route to becoming general secretary of the Party and head of state.
"While preparing this memo, U.S. INS have just informed us that the wife of the Governor of Fujian Province is suspected to have knowingly or unknowingly, investments in a number of Sun Yee On Triad owned companies in Fujian," the report’s June 1993 covering memo explains.
"Fujian Province is where smuggling gangs operate and is the principal area from which almost all of the illegal immigrants leave from to board ships destined to the USA,” it continues. “This information, if proven correct, shows the inter-play of corrupt officials with Triads in the movement of illegal immigrants."
In a series of stories that will add crucial context to heated political debates ahead of November’s U.S. presidential election, The Bureau will investigate the schemes and corruption networks identified in the 1993 report, which was subsequently buried in Ottawa according to its author Brian McAdam, as Canadian leaders failed to heed warnings on the paper’s first page “of a major immigration control problem that is unprecedented.”