Indian immigrants' influx seen at US-Mexico border, says report

The US-Mexico borders have been seeing an influx of Indian immigrants, fifth-largest group of immigrants after Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, a report by VOA said.

According to Syracuse University's TRAC, about 2,227 Indians were apprehended trying to cross the US-Mexico border in 2017, while in 2018, till date, 4,197 immigrants attempted to cross the border, the report said.

A majority of the immigrants are Sikhs who are trying to flee the "political persecution" with a religious component, according to lawyers who are representing them in the US asylum cases, the report said, adding that the persecution is by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).