“India’s great big immigration problem: From Rohingyas to Bangladeshis, the challenges entailing the deportation of lakhs of illegal immigrants”, Opindia, January 29, 2025:
“The newly-inaugurated Trump administration’s stringent approach towards deporting illegal immigrants from the United States and meticulous efforts to enhance border security, expedite the removal of illegals, and enforce border laws has intrigued the world.
From conducting raids to identify illegal immigrants to ensuring that illegals are accepted back by their native countries, the US administration has made Bharatiyas particularly question why Bharat does not deport illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi immigrants as aggressively and effectively as the US.
In Bharat, as per a 2017 Ministry of Home Affairs estimate, there are over 40,000 illegal Rohingyas who fled to Bharat after facing persecution in their native country Myanmar. About 16,000 are registered with UNHCR. Back in 2016, then Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju had told the Rajya Sabha that there are over 2 crore illegal Bangladeshi immigrants residing in Bharat which is nearly the entire population of Australia……”
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