WASHINGTON – The number of unauthorised immigrants in the US has remained almost the same between 2009 and 2014 even as the count of those coming from India has gone up by 130,000 in the same period, according to a report.
As many as five lakh unauthorised immigrants were from India in 2014, the Pew Research Center said in its latest report yesterday.
Pew said the US unauthorised immigrant population — 1.11 crore in 2014 — has stabilised with the number from Mexico declining but the total from other regions of the world increasing.
India is the country that saw the greatest increase in unauthorised immigrants since 2009 with a rise of about 130,000, for a total of 500,000 in 2014, Pew said.
Overall, the top five birth countries of unauthorised immigrants are Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, India and Honduras.
Mexicans remain the majority of the nation’s unauthorised immigrant population, but their estimated number — 58 lakh in 2014 — has declined by about five lakh people since 2009.
Mexico is the leading birth country of unauthorised immigrants in at least 38 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. El Salvador is the leading birth country in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The Philippines is the top birth country in Alaska and Hawaii. Other top birth countries include Brazil in Massachusetts, India in New Hampshire and Guatemala in Rhode Island.
