[China] Deport Illegal Immigrants? Nah, Let's Deport Our Own Citizens.

It is maddening to see people here on CF post about how we need to be appease China. China deports its own citizens from its cities. It jails more journalists than any country, except for Turkey. It is a country that does not offer Americans any immigration recourse.

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Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest

With coding skills, a foreign degree, fluent English and an apartment barely big enough for his espresso maker and two cats, Si Ruomu thought he was the kind of go-getting young tech worker that Beijing needs to thrive in the 21st century.

That was before the police arrived at his apartment building and ordered him and hundreds of others to vacate within 48 hours. Like most of his fellow tenants, Mr. Si had come from elsewhere in China to find work in the capital, which often treats migrants virtually as second-class citizens.

“One minute you’re drinking espressos, the next you’re being evicted,” said Mr. Si, 28, a bespectacled programmer who grew up in northern China and studied computer science in New Zealand. “I’m starting to think whether people like me have a future in Beijing.”

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