New Delhi: A brand new report by the Pew Analysis Centre has revealed that India has the third largest inhabitants of unlawful immigrants within the US, after Mexico and El Salvador. The report estimates that there have been about 725,000 Indian unauthorised immigrants within the US in 2021, up from 600,000 in 2017. The report, based mostly on census knowledge and different sources, reveals that the overall variety of unauthorised immigrants within the US reached 10.5 million in 2021.
This quantity represents about three per cent of the overall US inhabitants and 22 per cent of the foreign-born inhabitants. This can be a slight improve from 10.three million in 2017, however nonetheless beneath the height of 12.2 million in 2007.
The report additionally finds that the variety of unauthorised immigrants from Mexico, the most important supply nation, declined to 4.1 million in 2021, the bottom because the 1990s. Nevertheless, the variety of unauthorised immigrants from different areas, particularly Central America and Asia, elevated considerably. Central America accounted for the most important improve, with 240,000 extra unauthorised immigrants in 2021 than in 2017, adopted by South and East Asia, with 180,000 extra.
Among the many international locations with the most important numbers of US unauthorised immigrants, India, Brazil, Canada and former Soviet Union international locations all skilled progress from 2017 to 2021, the report says. El Salvador, with 800,000 unauthorised immigrants, and Guatemala and Honduras, with 700,000 and 525,000 respectively, additionally noticed a rise of their numbers.
The report additionally reveals that the six states with the most important unauthorised immigrant populations in 2021 had been: California (1.9 million), Texas (1.6 million), Florida (900,000), New York (600,000), New Jersey (450,000) and Illinois (400,000). These six states accounted for 60 per cent of the overall unauthorised immigrant inhabitants within the US.
The report notes that the UT administration has taken motion in opposition to the unauthorised immigrants and their supporters by invoking Article 311 (2) © of the Structure of India, which permits it to terminate their employment with out an inquiry. Within the final three years, the UT administration has sacked greater than 59 such workers for his or her involvement in anti-national and terror actions.
The report additionally compares the tendencies of the unauthorised immigrant inhabitants with the lawful immigrant inhabitants within the US. It says that the lawful immigrant inhabitants grew by greater than eight million, a 29 per cent improve, and the variety of naturalised US residents grew by 49 per cent. In 2021, naturalised residents accounted for about half (49 per cent) of all immigrants within the nation, the report says.
