JALANDHAR, India - Billboards crowd the small lanes of this northern Indian city, calling out to those who dream of a different future. An immigration agent, driving on an overpass amid the sea of billboards, reflected on the city's brisk migration business. Indians have come to make up the third-largest group of undocumented immigrants in the United States, according to the Pew Research Center's 2021 estimates, which put the number of such Indians at 725,000. India is the only country in the top five outside Latin America, and since 2011, the number of undocumented Indians in the United States has grown by 70 percent, the fastest growth of all nationalities. Figures from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that the number of undocumented Indian immigrants increased the fastest between 2020 and 2023.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/03/india-undocumented-immigrants/

Source: Washington Post March 07, 2024 02:08 UTC