BEIJING: An increasing number of Chinese students and tech professionals are expressing their alarm on social media about being harassed in what they described as a “small dark room” at the secondary inspection areas of immigration and border authorities in the United States.
The trend has sparked heightened concerns among international students about travelling to the US, in turn fuelling calls for the US to halt the revocation of legally obtained visas and stemming the disruption to people-to-people exchanges.
Chinese student Chen Guo (not his real name) began his journey to Boston, Massachusetts, in 2022 after he was accepted by Harvard Medical School. However, his academic dream quickly turned into a nightmare when, on arrival in the US city, he was subjected to an 18-hour secondary inspection by US Customs and Border Protection officers.
Sharing his harrowing experience on Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu earlier this year, Chen described how the officers scrutinised his emails and online browsing history and chat records.
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