It has long been feared that America’s number one geopolitical foe is weaponizing the illegal immigration crisis to strengthen its already considerable foothold within the United States. That China is apparently doing so with the direct support of major Democrat political leaders in the fourth-most-populated state in the country, along with Big Philanthropy and Big Corporate money, highlights the glaring national security threat posed by the elaborate pro-illegal alien safety net constructed over the past 30-plus years.
“Numerous Chinese government-linked entities have bankrolled a nonprofit accused of offering tips on how to evade federal immigration authorities, a Daily Caller News Foundation [DCNF] investigation found,” the news site reported May 20.
‘Advising Illegal Aliens on How to Evade Apprehension’
The House Home Security Committee in April announced that it is investigating the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), a New York City-based NGO, “in response to a video reportedly showing employees … advising illegal aliens on how to evade apprehension by [US] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” an April 16 letter sent to CPC by committee Chair Rep. Mark E. Green (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chair Josh Brecheen (R-OK) read.
The Chinese-American Planning Council has been “awarded over $1 million in taxpayer funding since 2022,” the letter noted. But that’s not the only money pouring into its bulging coffers, The Daily Caller detailed.
“CPC has received as much as $445,969 in donations from sources with ties to the Chinese government since 2018, according to financial records reviewed by the DCNF,” the news outlet related. “State-run enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of China as well as other entities connected to the Chinese Community Party (CCP) have provided financial assistance to CPC in recent years, records show.”
It gets more ominous than that.
“Additionally, CPC also appears to have significant financial and personnel links to a New York-based nonprofit, which, in turn, has extensive ties to Beijing and a CCP influence and intelligence arm,” The Daily Caller reported.
China’s exploitation of America’s porous borders during the Biden administration has been widely reported on since 2020. “There have been numerous documented instances of Chinese nationals, at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging in espionage, stealing military and economic secrets,” Thomas Duesterberg, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told the Federation for American Immigration Reform in 2023.
China, Schumer, Hochul, and the New York Mets
CPC’s 2023 annual report included a lengthy list thanking its “partners and funders.” It begins with “Public Support.” The first two names are those of the Empire State’s two sitting US senators, Democrat upper chamber Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). Prominent House members Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) immediately follow. Behind them comes Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
A dizzying array of New York state senators and assembly members, New York City council members, and other city and state departments is then featured.
The “Private Support” section’s highest category — “$100,000 +” — is led off by American Express. The Robin Hood Foundation — a philanthropy closely connected with global investment behemoth Goldman Sachs that has worked directly with New York City officials to help further the illegal alien migrant influx of the Big Apple — is also in this expensive grouping. Dina Powell McCormick, a former Goldman Sachs executive and wife of Republican Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), is currently a board member and former board chair of Robin Hood.
Interestingly, the first name listed under CPC’s second-most-expensive private support category — “$50,000-$99,999” — is that of the philanthropic arm of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets. Other CPC private donors include Charter Communications, DoorDash, George Washington University, and JPMorgan Chase.
As The Daily Caller probe makes clear, all these respected entities are working side by side with organizations pledged to serve the tyrannical Beijing regime’s interests abroad in aiding illegal alien-abetting CPC.
“The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a NYC-based health services provider catering to the local Asian-American community,” has given the Chinese-American Planning Council “as much as $229,993 in donations” since 2018, the news site reported. “Charles B. Wang – a Chinese-American billionaire and major donor to the health center – frequently met with CCP influence and intel leaders in China, state-run media reports reveal,” The Daily Caller chronicled.
Wang served as “executive director” of “an organization controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party’s] United Front Work Department,” the report continued. United Front operates as a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” a House Select Committee memorandum detailed.
Wayne Ho is president and CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council and a highly respected member of New York’s private-public social support pipeline. In 2023, Gov. Hochul named him to the state’s Not-For-Profit Contracting Advisory Committee.
Ho is quoted at length in an August 2023 press release from Hochul’s office touting her formal request to then-President Joe Biden “to take executive action and direct additional federal resources to the State of New York as it manages the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers arriving in New York.”
“The humanitarian crisis urgently needs additional resources and support from the federal government,” Ho said in the release. “We must ensure that asylum seeker families can survive and thrive in New York, which will require increased collaboration between the federal, state and city government and CBOs. We join our allies in calling for increased housing, job, legal, health, and social supports for our newest New Yorkers.”
It is no coincidence that this manifest threat to US national security exploded in power during the Biden era.
“In recent years, CPC reported significant revenue levels, especially since 2021,” House Home Security Chair Green spelled out. “From fiscal years 2017 to 2020, CPC reported an average revenue of about $30.9 million. In fiscal year 2021, however, CPC reported a revenue of about $50.1 million, which then nearly doubled to $97.4 million in fiscal year 2022.”
We all know why Chinese regime money would be behind something like this. But how do we grasp why key New York state Democrat elected officials, uber-powerful corporations such as American Express and Goldman Sachs, and even the New York Mets are a part of it?