When US Border Patrol apprehended Lihua Wu, and her daughter, 5, on a dirt road near the US-Mexico border, she said she'd relied on social media to plan her trek across Latin America, from packing Crocs to how to find a local guide
Lihua Wu's journey to the United States started when she scrolled past the words “The Route,” one of several common hashtags on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok, advising migrants on the irregular overland trek across Latin America to the United States, also known online as “the Big Beautiful.”
Over the course of three weeks photographing and reporting from a remote border stretch in southeastern Texas, Reuters witnessed hundreds of Chinese migrants crossing into the United States and interviewed more than two dozen in Mandarin. About half said they had been small business owners in China: running online stores, a sheep farm, a movie production company.
Migrant children from China surrender to Border Patrol agents in Fronton, Texas, U.S., April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Staff Border Patrol agents hand out trash bags to the arriving migrants from China to use against rain and cold wind as they wait for transport to a processing center next to a cemetery in Fronton, Texas, U.S., April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Staff
When COVID controls curbed package deliveries in China, Wu said her sales slumped from around six million yuan to one million yuan . Visa holders and border crossers can request U.S. asylum on arrival if they fear persecution at home. Asylum seekers from China won in U.S. immigration court 58% of the time, according to U.S. Justice Department data.
Baozai's original account “Baozai adventure the world alone” is shown as “blocked” on Douyin for violating “community self-discipline regulations.” At the clinic in Quito Wu found a group of Chinese migrants who had contacted a local Colombian guide known only by his first name, “Carlos.”A Border Patrol agent searches a migrant man from China as he surrenders after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Fronton, Texas, U.S., April 10, 2023. REUTERS/Staff
A Reuters reporter contacted a Colombian man through a number shared on Douyin who answered when addressed as Carlos. Carlos, who declined to give his full name and said he did not illegally smuggle anyone across borders or take money from migrants. But he said he did help some Chinese people looking for bus and ferry tickets.
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