{"id":696,"date":"2017-03-24T13:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T13:10:25","slug":"u-s-targets-more-than-200-indians-for-deportation-says-indias-top-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/03\/24\/u-s-targets-more-than-200-indians-for-deportation-says-indias-top-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. targets more than 200 Indians for deportation, says India\u2019s top diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW DELHI \u2014<\/span>\u00a0The Trump administration recently informed India that it is targeting for deportation more than 270 Indian nationals living in the United States illegally, according to India\u2019s foreign minister.<\/p>\n

The Indian government has asked for further information from Washington before allowing deportations, Sushma Swaraj\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0during a question period in the upper house of India\u2019s Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil we verify the nationalities of these people, how do we believe the claims in the list?\u201d Swaraj said. \u201cWe have asked the U.S. government for more information and told them that we will give an emergency certificate for their deportation only after establishing their Indian nationalities.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is growing concern in India over treatment of its citizens in the United States after a high-profile shooting of an Indian computer engineer in Olathe, Kan., in February, and other suspected hate crimes.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from the Trump administration on the purported deportation plan, which Swaraj said could cover up to 271 people.<\/p>\n

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The number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States born in India increased by about 130,000 between 2009 to 2014 to an estimated 500,000 people, according to\u00a0a September report<\/a>\u00a0from the Pew Research Center in Washington.<\/p>\n

Many of these unauthorized immigrants from India and elsewhere in Asia arrived with legal status and overstayed their visas, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics, the report\u2019s authors noted.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0a separate study<\/a>, Pew researchers found that an estimated 12,885 Indian citizens had overstayed their visas in fiscal year 2015, far fewer than some other countries including Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Indian computer engineers come to the United States every year on high skilled temporary H-1B visas, a program that has also been targeted for reform.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has moved aggressively to fulfill the president\u2019s campaign promises on immigration since he took office in January, announcing plans to build a wall and increasing enforcement actions against illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

The administration\u00a0is reportedly considering<\/a>\u00a0wide-ranging new policies that could empower authorities to detain and deport illegal immigrants, add new officers and quicken the pace of deportation hearings.<\/p>\n

The Trump Administration also began releasing its weekly list of unauthorized immigrants who commit crimes\u00a0this week.<\/a><\/p>\n

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NEW DELHI \u2014\u00a0The Trump administration recently informed India that it is targeting for deportation more than 270 Indian nationals living in the United States illegally, according to India\u2019s foreign minister. The Indian government has asked for further information from Washington before allowing deportations, Sushma Swaraj\u00a0said\u00a0during a question period in the upper house of India\u2019s Parliament on Thursday. \u201cUntil we verify… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}