They Escaped Chinese Government Repression. Now They're Imploring Trump to Let Them Stay in America
When Yuxiu Zhou crossed the U.S. and Mexico border with his teenage son last October after a month-long zigzagging trip from China, he believed all his nightmares were behind him.
The corrupt local government officials in his home village in the Southern Zhejiang Province in China who destroyed his dream of being an entrepreneur, and the snakehead in Mexico who sucked him dry by telling him he must buy a Mexican green card to cross to the U.S. were replaced by kind Americans who offered them food and clothes. Even the border patrol officials who locked them up in a detention center in San Diego seemed to be nice. They were released on the second day.
Zhou and his son flew to New York immediately where they were joined by his wife and their teenage daughter, who took the same route across the border a few months later. On the bustling streets of Flushing in Queens, teeming with aspiring new immigrants from China, Zhou, 57, was convinced that with the freedom and democracy guaranteed in America he could “make it” here just by working hard.
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It’s not clear how Trump would carry out the mass deportation. According to a recent news report, military age men from China, about whom the President-elect has sounded alarm bells several times during his campaign, may be placed high on the list. Overall, Chinese voters in the U.S. have been leaning to the right in elections. Trump won five percentage points more ballots from Asian voters in this election than last time, according to exit polls.
The sentiment may be even stronger among pro-democracy Chinese dissidents. Several prominent leaders of the Tiananmen democracy movement in 1989 who live in the U.S. in exile now have openly shown support for Trump. Some newcomers, despite their concerns about the mass deportation, still think Trump is the right choice. “I am worried about the deportation. But I also want him to rescue America,” Zhao said.
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