There has been a dramatic decrease in the past three years in illegal immigration into the United States -- but the same years saw a dramatic increase in illegal immigration from one country: India; in May, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee that at some point this year, Indians will account for about 1 in 3 non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught in Texas; experts say that at least one reason is that, beginning in 2009, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua no longer require Indians to obtain a visa before entering any of the four Central American countries, making it easier for smugglers to bring Indians there, and from there to the United States
Illegal immigrants recently released from detention // Source: sikhnet.com
The overall number of illegal immigrants entering the United States has fallen dramatically over the last three years, but one group of immigrants is growing by leaps and bounds: illegal immigrants from India.
Between October 2009 and march 2011, for example, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested at least 2,600 Indiana — which is a major increase over the more typical 150 to 300 illegal immigrants from India arrested every year until then. Rosendo Hinojosa, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, at the southernmost tip of Texas, which is the most active nationwide for apprehending Indian nationals, told Fox News: “Being the businessmen they are, they need to start looking for ways to supplement that work.” Read more
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