Another reason why Chinese love coming here is to take advantage of government benefits, particularly with regard to medical care. There is effectively no social safety net over there, and Chinese who are well off enough to set themselves up over here find America to be an easy mark. I personally know of many recent immigrants talking about loopholes to hide their overseas assets to qualify for Medicare and section 8 vouchers, and how to avoid detection of their ties to the communist party.

A big difference between these immigrants and earlier waves is the ones coming now have already made it, often by being shrewd about playing the system. This also means they have no compulsion or desire to assimilate, unlike past immigrants who had to work within the system here to ultimately find success. I have been personally shocked by the level of contempt shown of American values - although this is something you will only see expressed to members of the same circle (I look like them and can talk like them, which gains me admittance).

All of my own grandparents and some of my own parents immigrated from china, and I have many other friends, acquaintances and family members who I would qualify as recent arrivals (my more negative statements apply to some of them) so I am not inherently anti Chinese immigrant. But I am not optimistic about the new arrivals being a positive thing in the long term.