Indians kind the third largest inhabitants of unlawful immigrants within the US, numbering round 725,000, Pew Research Center has discovered. Mexico and El Salvador comply with the US within the checklist.

The analysis additionally discovered that the nation’s 10.5 million unauthorised immigrants represented roughly three per cent of the entire inhabitants within the US. It additional represented 22 per cent of the foreign-born inhabitants.

“The total number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. from countries other than Mexico has grown rapidly. In 2021, this population was 6.4 million, up by 900,000 from 2017,” the research says.

“Almost every region in the world had a notable increase in the number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. from 2007 to 2021. The largest increases were from Central America (240,000) and South and East Asia (180,000),” it provides.

Data from US Customs and Border Protection suggests {that a} huge variety of undocumented Indian immigrants are crossing the US borders on foot. As many as 6,917 Indians had been apprehended, expelled or denied entry for coming into the US with out paperwork between October 2022 to September 2023. The variety of undocumented Indians within the US went up considerably after borders opened as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. While 30,662 encountered within the 2021 fiscal yr, 63,927 encountered within the 2022 fiscal yr. With 97,000 encounters this yr, 30,010 had been on the Canadian border and 41,770 on the Southern border.

“Overall, about 7.8 million unauthorized immigrants were in the U.S. labor force in 2021. That was up slightly from 2019 but smaller than every year from 2007 through 2015,” the analysis says.

California, Texas, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois had been the states with the utmost variety of unauthorised immigrants. Florida and Washington had been the one US states to witness will increase to their unauthorised immigrant populations. The states that noticed decreases had been California and Nevada.

“Meanwhile, the lawful immigrant population grew by more than 8 million, a 29% increase, and the number of naturalized U.S. citizens grew by 49%. In 2021, naturalized citizens accounted for about half (49%) of all immigrants in the country,” the analysis says.