by ANANYA BHATTACHARYA
Desi me rollin’, they hatin’. PHOTO/Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Indians are staying in the US illegally at far higher rates than any other nationality.
In 2014, there were nearly half a million unauthorized Indian immigrants, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. The influx represented a nearly 43% spike since 2009, when the number was 350,000.
The Department of Homeland Security attributes the growing immigrant populations from Asia and other far-off places to people who initially “arrived with legal status and overstayed their visas.” Last year, 14,000 Indians on tourist or business visas overstayed their legally-permitted welcome. It beats all other Asian nations when it comes to illegal entrants.
Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s favorite punching bag, Mexico, saw its illegal immigrant population fall by almost half a million over the five-year period from 2009 to 2014, though it is still by far the biggest source of illegal immigrants to the US.
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