Protesters at Arizona border wall get friendly profile from China-linked outlet

Published October 9, 2026 11:57am ET | Updated October 9, 2026 11:57am ET



Protesters camping out near an Arizona border wall construction site are now getting friendly press coverage from a New York outlet under congressional investigation for ties to China.

A BreakThrough News correspondent spent five days in the camp to document the demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and what she called “U.S. imperialism,” according to a Thursday post from the outlet. The explicitly anti-ICE outlet received millions of dollars from nonprofit groups tied to China-based Marxist donor Neville Singham in recent years, and it announced a merger in June with another outlet covering Shanghai events with promotion from Chinese state media.

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