Roughly 42,000 migrants from India have crossed the southern border illegally during the fiscal year starting last October through September, according to data compiled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That is more than double the number from the same period the prior year, when crossings by Indians hit a historic high. An additional 1,600 have crossed from the northern border illegally—four times the number who crossed in the last three years combined.
Since 2007, the total number of illegal border crossings by Indians in a fiscal year has exceeded 5,000 only four times. Indians nearly all turn themselves in to Border Patrol, rather than being arrested while evading capture, because they want to ask for asylum in the U.S.
Personal Commentary: This issue is not strictly limited to India-Bharat but also with China, as we have seen an increased influx of Chinese migrants entering into the U.S. via the southern border. There's a smuggling issue that pretty much takes advantage of people's economic aspirations, desperations and everything in between that there would be enough fools and dreamers to take a perilous journey to America.
