The increase in illegal Indian-Americans can be attributed to Indian immigrants overstaying visas, the report said.
Business
Standard : The populationof Indian-origin people in America
grew by 38 per cent in seven years between 2010 and 2017, a South
Asian advocacy group has said in its latest demographic report.
There
are at least 630,000 Indians who are undocumented, a 72 per cent
increase since 2010, the South Asian Americans Leading Together
(SAALT) said in its snapshot.
The
increase in illegal Indian-Americans
can be attributed to Indian immigrants overstaying visas, it said.
Nearly
250,000 Indians overstayed their visa in 2016 therefore becoming
undocumented, it said.
In
general, the population of American residents tracing their roots to
South Asia grew by 40 per cent. In real terms, it increased from 3.5
million in 2010 to 5.4 million in 2017, SAALT said.
The
Nepali community grew by 206.6 per cent since 2010, followed by
Indian (38 per cent), Bhutanese (38 per cent), Pakistani (33 per
cent), Bangladeshi (26 per cent) and Sri Lankan populations (15 per
cent).
There
are currently at least 4,300 active South Asian Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. As of August 2018, there are
approximately 2,550 active Indian DACA recipients. Only 13 per cent
of the overall 20,000 DACA eligible Indians have applied and received
DACA.
SAALT
said that as far as DACA recipients from other countries are
concerned, there are 1,300 from Pakistan, 470 from Bangladesh, 120
from Sri Lanka and 60 from Nepal.
The
immigrant population density of the country shows that undocumented
Bangladeshi immigrants live in New York (19,000); Michigan (4,000);
Virginia (3,000); and California (2,000).
The
demographic snapshot is based primarily on Census 2010 and the 2017
American
Community Survey.
According
to the report, income inequality has been reported to be the greatest
among Asian Americans.
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