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While the Federal Interior Ministry has done a commendable job by cancelling 29,000 illegal identity cards and an equal number of unlawfully acquired passports, it is yet to initiate a full-blooded crackdown and deport those who have entered the country without official permission and even gone on to obtain vital national documents in connivance with the country’s institutions. However, research tells it a global menace because illegal immigrants are also walking through the streets in most countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia and Russia. More than 925,000 'deported' illegal immigrants are still in the US, including 170,000 with criminal records. The July 1, 2016 edition of the “Daily Mail” states: “Hundreds of thousands of people in the country illegally have been ordered removed but are still living here. About 20 percent of the deported-but-not-departed illegal immigrants have at least one criminal conviction; nearly all of them are at large. About 60 percent of them come from just four countries: Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.” The prestigious British newspaper writes: “More than 170,000 of them have been convicted of crimes in the United States. Those numbers indicate that nearly 1 in 10 people living in the US illegally have already been ordered to leave but are defying federal immigration authorities. Last year--179,040 new 'final orders of removal' were issued to deport criminal aliens who haven't left.” While there were 540,000 legal immigrants in India by March 2012, as a report of the “Times of India” had stated, the world’s second most populous country also houses several tens of millions of illegal immigrants too. A March 11, 2016, report of the “Reuters” news agency had shed light on this growing problem in India, and particularly in states like Assam. It said: “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in a volatile frontier state, waging a polarising election campaign in a bid to form its first government there. In campaign rallies in the remote state of Assam, officials of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have also promised to identify and deport younger illegal migrants, in response to rising discontent among the state's Hindus. When Assam elects a state legislature in April, an estimated 10 percent of its 20 million voters will be Muslims who have migrated since the 1950s from the former East Pakistan, later Bangladesh, and gained Indian citizenship.” The number of foreign immigrants living in India is steadily declining, but India continues to be among the 10 countries with the highest in-migration in the world. At the same time, India sends the fourth largest number of emigrants to other countries. In 2010, there were 5.4 million foreign-born people living in India, according to new estimates released by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. These numbers make India home to the ninth largest number of foreign-born people in the world. The number of foreign immigrants living in India is steadily declining, but India continues to be among the 10 countries with the highest in-migration in the world. At the same time, India sends the fourth largest number of emigrants to other countries. In 2010, there were 5.4 million foreign-born people living in India, according to new estimates released by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. These numbers make India home to the ninth largest number of foreign-born people in the world. The number of foreign immigrants living in India is steadily declining, but India continues to be among the 10 countries with the highest in-migration in the world. At the same time, India sends the fourth largest number of emigrants to other countries. In 2010, there were 5.4 million foreign-born people living in India, according to new estimates released by the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. These numbers make India home to the ninth largest number of foreign-born people in the world. The November 14, 2011 edition of the 'Hindustan Times' had revealed: “Precise figures are not available, but the numbers run in tens of millions, at least 10 million are from Bangladesh, others being from Pakistan, Tibet, Afghanistan and others.” About illegal immigrants in the European Union and Britain, the May 4, 2016, report of the “Daily Mail” had held: “Latest figures show that a record 1.25million asylum seekers arrived in the EU last year – more than double the figure from 2014. It is often difficult to establish exactly where an individual first arrived in the EU, and in 2014, Britain sent only 49 asylum seekers back to France – despite thousands making their way here via Calais in France.” Meanwhile, the British Home Office had estimated a couple of years ago that 4,000 to 10,000 applications a year to stay in the UK were made on the basis of a sham marriage. A 2012 study carried out by the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society had disclosed that there were 120,000 irregular migrant children in the UK, of whom 65,000 were born in the UK to parents without legal status. According to the study, these children were at risk of destitution, exploitation and social exclusion because of contradictory and frequently changing rules and regulations which jeopardise their access to healthcare, education, protection by the police and other public services. Russia also experiences a constant flow of both legal and illegal immigration. An April 2013 edition of the “Forbes” magazine had noted: “Russia’s Federal Migration Service estimates the number of migrant workers in Russia is around five million of which three million are expected to be illegals. Russia needs an inflow of over 300,000 migrant workers annually to meet the country’s demands for economic development, Konstantin Romodanovsky, the head of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said in March. Russia currently needs a total of five to six million foreign workers, who must then become naturalised citizens.” By end 2012, there were an estimated four million illegal immigrants from the ex-Soviet states in Russia. On average, 200,000 legal immigrants enter the country every year; about half are ethnic Russians from other republics of the former Soviet Union. In addition, there are an estimated 10–12 million unauthorised immigrants in the country. There has been a significant influx of ethnic Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, and Uzbeks into large Russian cities in recent years, which has been viewed very unfavorably by many citizens and contributed to nationalist sentiments.--(References: BBC News, International Herald Tribune and Moscow-based Daily Pravda) In Australia, the 2014 report of the Immigration Department had said that an estimated 62,100 people were unaccounted for in Australia during 2014, which was roughly 1.2 percent of the 5.5 million people who entered the country each year on temporary visas.
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Federal Interior Ministry, illegal identity, unlawfully acquired passports, full-blooded crackdown, United Kingdom, India
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