As noted here recently, Indian nationals have joined the mass run on the border, where even a pathetic excuse for an asylum claim may get an admittance card to America.
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times gave front-page treatment to the subject, including a graph showing the overall uptick:
Indians already occupy the number 3 slot among immigrant population numbers, following Mexicans and Chinese. Since the path to the US is well trodden from the subcontinent, it would be unwise to ignore the potential for a major surge of Indian illegals when the available population currently exceeds 1.3 billion.
The recent LA Times article (below) reported that 42 percent of asylum claimers in recent years were rejected, which presumably means that 58 percent were accepted — a worrying result, given the potential numbers.
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum, Los Angeles Times, August 13, 2018
On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise. Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.
The Riverside Democrat had expected to see a high concentration of Central American detainees, many of them fathers who had been separated from their children.
Not all of the men spoke English. The group appointed a representative, who told Takano that they were supporters of two different political parties and had been persecuted by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party.
“They said they were often bullied into doing things that were immoral,” Takano said. “They would have to carry drugs, perpetrate violence against others.”
According to immigration officials and attorneys, there has been an increase in recent years of Indian nationals crossing into the U.S. through Mexico — although they represent a small percentage of those detained overall. Indian citizens are among thousands of migrants from Haiti, Africa and Asia now trekking across Latin America, taking advantage of travel routes forged by Latino immigrants.
By early August, about 380 of the 680 migrants at the Victorville facility were Indian nationals, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, sent there as civil rather than criminal detainees pending the outcome of their immigration cases.
In addition, about 40% of the detainees at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Imperial Valley facility are from India, a spokeswoman said. Nearly 20% of detainees at ICE’s Adelanto processing center are Indian.
So far during the 2018 fiscal year, 4,197 of those arrested by Border Patrol agents have been Indian nationals, according to data from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
And many have seen their asylum claims denied.
From fiscal years 2012 to 2017, about 42% of asylum cases from India were rejected, clearinghouse records show. (Continues)
