Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., on how the ongoing border crisis has resulted in increased migration from across the world.

In March, a Chinese man wandered onto a Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, California. He was believed to have crossed illegally into the U.S. and was released by DHS pending a decision in his asylum application. He claimed to have been lost.

But it isn’t that easy to stumble onto what the Marine Times called their "vast combat training installation located in the remote California desert." Though he was apprehended, he scoped out the security at our biggest Marine base. According to the Wall Street Journal, there have been around 100 such "innocent" incidents in recent years.

These are likely amateurs carrying out one-off espionage gigs for China. China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law demands that, "all organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts."

Hundreds of migrants, predominantly from Venezuela, cross the Rio Grande to the United States from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Dec. 5, 2023. (David Peinado/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Earlier this year, The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Defense Department to see how many bases had been targets of such surveillance. To date, they have only received information from Pearl Harbor, but responses from that base alone showed multiple intrusions by Chinese nationals in the past few years.

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