I ' m confused . In this post you brought up 2 contradictory ideas . 1 . That there are almost never any customers , implying there are very little profits being made 2 . The families are sending their money back to China That doesn ' t make sense , if the businesses aren ' t making profits how does this concept make any sense ? There ' d be nothing in it for the Chinese government . You also mention laundering , but of what ? Besides what would be the point of laundering money if it ' s just going straight back to China ? Laundering money accomplishes nothing if it ' s being immediately sent to a foreign government that ' s okay with it in the first place Honestly none of this makes a single lick of sense dude haha It ' s far more likely that these families are moving to buttfucknowhere , Canada , because it ' s easy . Getting approved to immigrate to Canada is far easier than to America , and small towns who need more businesses to stimulate their economy are far more likely to accept random immigrants . And the reason they ' re working 90 hour weeks is because they have to to make enough money . Besides they ' re not paid with wage , they own the business they work it as much as they can . I think your conspiracy raises a million questions to answer none