Why did Tiktok promote illegal immigration from China to the US?

Over the last decade, a total of 15,000 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border into the U.S. illegally But in last year, 2023 alone, the number jumped up to 37,000 And almost all of them mentioned TikTok and other Chinese social media platforms as their main source of information on learning how to cross the border illegally Oh, you learned on TikTok They're able to do it all with information, maps and advice readily available on Chinese social media The post we found had step-by -step instructions for hiring smugglers and detailed directions to that hole we visited The CCP controls everything in China, including all social media platforms So the real question is, why did the CCP promote illegal immigration from China to the U.S. when it's clearly against its own policies and the public image the CCP tried to put up? Well, I grew up in communist China, so maybe I could help explain what is going on with the CCP Welcome to my channel, my name is Ally If you like my content, please help me by liking, sharing and subscribing So Chinese immigrants, that's actually not a new topic Mainland Chinese people have always been trying to get out of China whether to escape from the CCP or to get a better life Other than the official legal channels there are several illegal methods Chinese immigrants often use to get to developed countries such as overstaying visas, sham marriages and crossing the border illegally To get into the U.S., Chinese migrants used to go through human smugglers known as shuotou or snake heads and pay them a hefty fee And the snakeheads would often smuggle people in by the sea so a lot of the illegal migrants from China used to come into the U.S. through the east or west coastlines In comparison, even though the southern border route has existed for decades it was not a preferred route by Chinese people As I mentioned earlier, for 10 years, the combined total of Chinese migrants apprehended on the southern border was fewer than 15,000 But things took an interesting turn in the last two years thanks to the power of social media According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's website In 2021 fiscal year, 450 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border In 2022, the number increased to 2176 and in 2023, it jumped to 24,000 And we're only halfway into 2024 fiscal year The number has already surpassed the previous fiscal year That's because the southern border crossing route was being promoted on Chinese social medias, especially Douyin Douyin is the original Chinese version of TikTok created by the same company It has over 700 million active users in China It's more than twice the population of the entire U.S. Around 2022, the topic of crossing through the southern U.S. border became super trendy on Chinese social media You can find endless videos of people documenting their own journey and giving instructions on Douyin And once someone watches one single video on this topic they will constantly be fed with more related content thanks to the algorithm That's when people realize, oh, other than the legal and illegal ways to get into America which are both expensive, it's also possible to walk through the southern border and it costs a lot less than what they would have to pay to the snakeheads These videos often make this dangerous route seem easy and it usually ends with someone cheering on the U.S. side of the fence Soon, these videos' comment sections were flooded with discussions and people asking for more information And these comments were often replied with a link, sending them to a private WeChat or Telegram group where they can pay to get more detailed information This went on for more than a year, until two months ago in February multiple Western media reported on the surge of illegal Chinese migrants at the southern border And soon, all videos on this topic on Douyin were completely deleted The company did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the role of their websites in encouraging the increase in irregular migration If we look at this issue from the perspective of Douyin's company, I think it's just all about money They probably allowed these videos to exist on the platform because they're hot, they're trendy and they help to bring in a lot of views And then they deleted the videos because they don't want to be in trouble So could it be that these videos just slipped through the crack and the CCP didn't notice this trend and didn't notice the videos until the Western media exposed them? If you think that's a possibility, you probably underestimated the amount of manpower and money the CCP has put into the internet police force I mentioned before in a previous video that when the CCP wanted to cover up a massive fire in Guizhou province the internet police traced down a single video and a post to their respective uploaders They went to their homes, threatened these people, and forced them to delete their posts In China, the CCP has absolute power over all companies, and that includes media and all social media companies And they're fully capable of monitoring every single post and comment that exists on Chinese internet If the CCP doesn't want something on the internet, they will be deleted That's what the internet police were paid to do And if the CCP doesn't want certain keywords to be trendy, you will not be able to search the term at all and none of the posts will ever make it to the trendy list and be seen by more people In fact, some of the Chinese migrants who crossed the southern border were originally popular Chinese content creators themselves They decided to escape China because they said or wrote something the CCP didn't like For example, this Chinese singer-songwriter goes by the name Fengkuang Laozhang or Crazy Laozhang He learned about the dark side of the CCP such as the Tiananmen massacre and the live organ harvesting in 2015 And later he wrote a song called Wei or Surrounded The lyrics were even very explicit but people understood what he was trying to say and the song resonated with them So within seven hours, the song received 200,000 shares And then it disappeared and Crazy Laozhang got into trouble He knew he had to leave China with his entire family, so he chose to cross the southern border in May last year He's living in America now and he's free to create songs without worrying about losing his life So he published seven more anti-CCP songs that he didn't dare to publish before But what's interesting is he still got calls from China directly threatening him to take down the songs Another content creator's channel is called Dali Chu Qiji which translates to Dali Brings Miracle She's known for criticizing unfair politics in China And as you might have guessed, she was harassed and her husband lost his job So she had to cross the border with her family and her young daughter The daughter once said to her, Mommy, I hope those bad guys who came to catch you are all dead If it's not for them, we wouldn't need to sleep in the mud Ride those scary boats and be living this hard, and dad wouldn't have lost his job She replied to her daughter, those people are dead already Even though they look alive, their souls were long dead Another content creator is called Chen Shaotian In 2021, he wrote an anti-CCP post on Twitter And this single post led him to be jailed for 14 months Since then, he's been planning on escaping China And when he finally did, he documented his entire journey and livestreamed whenever possible And that made him more popular And his videos became part of the hundreds and thousands of border crossing videos uploaded on Chinese social media And before these videos were taken down in February, each of these videos had thousands and millions of views So there's no way the CCP didn't notice the trend or the existence of these videos But they allowed it to happen. Why? Does the CCP want Chinese people to get out? No On May 10th, 2022 the CCP announced that they would apply strict border policies to restrict Chinese citizens from leaving the country And since then, many Chinese people have reported that they're not able to get a new passport or the government refused to renew their existing passports This has been going on for more than two years and is still like this in China now The CCP is also notorious for taking away the passports from Chinese dissidents to prevent them from escaping China For example, the family members this man left behind in China lost their passports and their chance to leave China My parents are in their 70s, and they took away their passports and IDs My niece is 13 years old, a minor, and they took away her passport and everything Now restricting their movements The CCP has persecuted many people who tried to escape China but ended up deported from other countries At the same time though, the CCP refused to take back illegal Chinese migrants from the US And internally, the CCP has always been trying to put up a strong image and say the westerners are all praising China and they're jealous of the Chinese economy Yet they allow videos that's showing and instructing Chinese people on how to cross the border illegally just to get into the US to become trendy on social media What is going on? Why did the CCP contradict itself so much? What exactly is the CCP's stance? It's very easy to get confused by CCP's behavior, but just remember one thing Whatever the CCP's policies or actions are, they only serve one purpose and that is to maintain its totalitarian rule Nothing else matters, therefore they can be changed whenever necessary For example, after the CCP took over China, Mao encouraged everyone to have more children Mao said that more people equals more power In the early 50s, it was strictly forbidden to have abortion in China On the other hand, women who had given birth to 5 or more children were given the honorable mother title and women with 10 or more children were given the hero mother title in China In 1982, the CCP pushed out the infamous one-child policy And since then, countless forced abortions, forced birth control and murdering of perfectly healthy babies happened in China until the CCP started allowing two children per family in 2016 In 2021, the CCP increased that to three children per family and in 2023, a new policy allowed babies born out of wedlock to be registered Even after all of this, the birth rate in China stayed low and it continued to decline So the CCP is now pushing and forcing women to get pregnant And the media says women should give birth to 3 to 4 children now That's just one example of how extreme and how much CCP's policies can change And another one is on the China-US relations Before the CCP took over China, US is China's dear friend And then the US became the evil American imperialism And the Korean War is officially known in China as Kangmei Yuanchao or Resisting America and Assisting North Korea War During this period, several anti-US propaganda war films were produced such as Battle of Shanganlin, and Chinese citizens were taught to hate the US until the CCP decided to get close to the US So a movie depicting an American pilot falling in love with a female CCP soldier was filmed and the movie is called Lover's Grief Over the Yellow River So depending on how much conflict was happening at the moment between China and the US the CCTV movie channel would play different films For example, when the US increased importing tax on China CCTV played Battle of Shanganlin But then on the next day, the leaders had a phone call and then CCTV switched to broadcasting Lover's Grief Over the Yellow River It changes constantly like a joke And my last example is with COVID China went from zero COVID policy to completely opening up overnight and that caused over 100 million Chinese people get infected in a short amount of time and a lot of them died as a result There are way too many examples of CCP's ever-changing policies because ultimately the only thing that matters to CCP is survival and staying in power So maybe it's not too strange to see the CCP forbid Chinese people from leaving the country but at the same time promoting border crossing content What do you think is the real reason that the CCP allowed these border crossing videos to exist and to get popular on TikTok and other Chinese social media platforms? Does the CCP want Chinese people to get out or not? I'm curious to hear your thoughts That's all for today, please like, share, and subscribe Thank you for watching, and I'll see you next time