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Being used to 'surveil American citizens and harass Chinese citizens who have fled the Communist regime'

China's Communist regime has established secret police stations inside the United States and they are being used to "surveil American citizens and harass Chinese citizens who have fled the Communist regime."

And a couple of American lawmakers are working on a new plan that would put them out of business.

It is in a report at the Federalist that the threat to America is profiled.

And also the work of U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on the Expel Illegal Chinese Police Act introduced just weeks ago, along with the companion House effort by Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa.

"No foreign government has the right to operate secret police stations on American soil. The Chinese Communist Party's actions undermine international norms and human rights by circumventing legal extradition processes and engaging in intimidation tactics. This legislation sends a clear message: the United States will never tolerate illegal operations that violate our sovereignty and intimidate individuals living within our borders," Cotton explained.

Hinson added, "The Chinese Communist Party should have never been able to operate police stations in the U.S. to surveil American citizens and harass Chinese citizens who have fled the Communist regime. … Senator Tom Cotton and I are working to end these illegal intimidation tactics that undermine U.S. sovereignty and finally hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for such egregious violations."

The bill would authorize actions that would target those running the police stations with "financial sanctions, visa restrictions, and asset freezes."

The report explains the Chinese regime's strategies already have created issues.

One Chinese citizen, Quanzhong An, already has been handed 20 months in prison for "acting on behalf of the Chinese government to intimidate individuals living in the U.S., the report said.

"This case highlights the urgent need for strong measures to protect individual freedoms and uphold national sovereignty against the covert policing tactics employed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)," the report explained.

In the past, the Federalist confirmed, Chinese Communists even have sent "undercover police" to foreign nations "to forcibly repatriate individuals labeled as 'criminals' by any means necessary."

Part of the pressure schemes included subjecting the individuals' relatives, still back in China, "to harassment, jail, torture and other mistreatment."

"In countries like Vietnam and Australia, Chinese agents have simply abducted their prey," the report said.

The police stations, estimated to number 100 around the world, including in the U.S., ostensibly are for various "services" for Chinese individuals.

"Their actual purpose is far more insidious: to monitor, intimidate, and silence overseas Chinese individuals, while aiding China's efforts to capture alleged fugitives globally," the report said.

There already have been prosecutions in the U.S. of individuals for helping the illegal policing activities, and their suspects' defense was that they "believed they were assisting a company or an individual in collecting debts, unaware that the Chinese government was involved."

And the Department of Justice has indicted 40 Chinese officers and members of the Cyberspace Administration of China for their actions.

"These cases demonstrate the lengths the PRC government will go to silence and harass U.S. persons who exercise their fundamental rights to speak out against PRC oppression. … These actions violate our laws and are an affront to our democratic values and basic human rights," the DOJ confirmed.
The report pointedly notes during Joe Biden's tenure in the White House, he "never demanded that China stop its illegal policing on U.S. soil."