Online migrant celebrities bring wave of Chinese nationals to U.S. border

FRONTON, Texas – 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.”

By the time the single mother and her 5-year-old daughter were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol on a dirt road near the U.S.-Mexico border, just before midnight on April 2, Wu said she had relied on social media for detailed instructions for her trip, including on […]

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