The controversy surrounding undocumented indian immigration in the US is a minor issue. Contrary to what some segments of the public who are looking for sensation are claiming, it is not a metaphorical storm.
 
For this reason, when US President donald trump addressed reporters in Washington following his january 27 phone call with prime minister Narendra Modi, he avoided a long discussion on these Indians.
 
Illegal immigration to his nation is one of the few subjects that agitates trump the most. The day after trump pressured a weakened colombia to accede to his requests for "unrestricted acceptance" of fellow illegal aliens, reporters attempted to grill him about indians who had broken the law by being in the United States.
 
According to the White House, "he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States." Sensation-hungry media outlets exploited it as fuel, but trump declined to fall for it. Last year, the Pew Research Center, a think tank, projected that 725,000 indians in the US do not have legal status.
 
The fact that boatloads of impoverished indians used to be dumped daily on gulf coastlines in the 1970s and 1980s has been forgotten by some in india who believe this to be a high amount. The oil boom following the 1973 Arab-Israel 'Yom Kippur' war brought them to in search of employment.
 
Due to the fact that their small, packed boats were unable to accommodate any luggage, they landed on a new place with no passports and few belongings, usually only a canvas bag and no change of clothing. So that they could not be deported anywhere if they were caught, the somewhat better-off El Dorado seekers arrived by aircraft and, on the advice of agents, destroyed their passports as soon as they left the airport.
 
As a writer covering them in West Asia for ten years, I also occasionally worked as a community worker providing consolation on behalf of relief organizations and indian groups. The sufferings of their fellow citizens who risked all to set sail for the gulf in search of a better life are nothing compared to what is currently happening in the US with illegal Indians.
 
Can trump continue to crack down on immigration?
 
In contrast to those indians, illegal "aliens," the exact number of whom no one knows, have an easy time in the United States. There are between 13 and 21 million theories. Most of these illegal immigrants are from the Caribbean and South America. Everything that illegal persons need to live a regular life with pretenses of legality is available for a fee on Washington's 18th Street, which is lined with ethnic eateries serving everything from Ethiopian and Brazilian to Mediterranean and Mexican. Driver's licenses, social security cards, offers of housing, and so on. Going to the local 7-Eleven convenience shop every morning to be picked up by casual employers has become the norm for occupations.
 
Similar streets and 7-Eleven stores may be seen in the south central United States, particularly in affluent texas and california on the west coast. To sustain and feed undocumented 'aliens', an underground nationwide network flourishes throughout the United States.
 
Gulf monarchs treated the boat migrants who landed on their beaches with compassion, in contrast to trump or even his predecessors. As their fledgling administrations lacked an efficient method for hiring foreign workers, they realized that there were jobs available in their sheikhdoms. As a result, gulf monarchs occasionally granted illegal migrants amnesty and made them citizens of their nations.
 
 
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G GOWTHAM

01/02/2025 10:38 AM