As the 2024 presidential election approaches, the rate of illegal immigrants from India crossing the U.S. northern border is rapidly increasing.
The U.S.-Canada border is a popular crossing point for illegal immigrants due to its numerous easy entry points and lack of physical barriers that are more common at the southern border. The proportion of Indian migrants crossing the northern border is rapidly increasing. In fiscal year 2023, the Border Patrol made 1,872 arrests, but in fiscal year 2021 there were only 42, an increase of 4,357%. according to Compliant with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. (Related: ‘A big problem’: Democrats admit border is not secure, but plan to vote to dismiss Mayorkas impeachment anyway)
Illegal immigration has become a hot issue for voters heading into November as border encounters soar under the Biden administration. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration if he is re-elected in November.
“People are trying to get a lot of things by November, but if November ends up supporting Trump, then of course it will be earlier than January,” said Chirag Patel, an immigration lawyer in Maryland. I’m trying to get a lot out of this,” he said. Said Voice of America.
A gas station near the U.S.-Canada border in the border town of Pohenegamock, Quebec, on March 2, 2017. Pohenegamok locals must go through U.S. customs to purchase gasoline. You will see the boundary stone just to the left of the gas price sign. (Photo credit goes to DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)
According to VOA, illegal Indian immigrants enter the United States for a variety of reasons, including fear of prosecution from their home country and economic motivations. Indian immigrants are generally wealthy relative to India’s economic situation and often come from wealthy regions such as Gujarat and Punjab. Devesh Kapur, director of the Asia Program and professor of South Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University, told VOA that even expensive travel routes, which can cost more than $50,000, are affordable for these immigrants. Told.
According to VOA, some Indians chose to migrate through the U.S.-Canada border rather than the Mexican border. That’s because it’s generally a faster and safer route. The northern border is much larger than the southern border, and migrants do not face obstacles such as border fences and walls in the south.
Immigrants can also enter Canada without a visa and then travel south. Rather than traveling north to the U.S.-Mexico border, migrants can fly into Canada from Mexico and then cross the U.S.-Canada border, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
“Right now, we’re seeing more people just coming to Canada,” said Cinder Purwal, a political scientist and professor at the Kwantlen Polytechnic Institute in British Columbia. I can go,” he said. V.O.A.
More broadly, illegal immigration through both the northern and southern borders has surged under the Biden administration. Approximately 1.6 million migrants were encountered at the North-South border in fiscal year 2021, compared to more than 2 million in fiscal year 2023 and nearly 1 million in the first five months of 2024.
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