Every fourth immigrant in America is illegal, how will Trump deal with this problem?

New Delhi: Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th President of America in January 2025. Trump got victory but now challenges are facing him/her. The biggest problem in this is the entry of illegal immigrants into America. According to new data, every fourth migrant in the US is illegal. More and more people, including Indians, are trying to enter America. Let us understand this in detail with figures.The number of illegal immigrants has increased
Attacking President Joe Biden over illegal immigration, Trump said in October that 21 million people arrived in the last three years of his/her presidency. Data from the US Department of Homeland Security shows that the number of illegal immigrants in the country has increased since 2020, but the figure is nowhere close to Trump’s idea.

Every fourth migrant is illegal
In absolute numbers, the number of legal immigrants is expected to grow from 24.1 million in 2000 to 36.9 million in 2022, according to the US-based think tank Pew Research Center.

big pile at the borders
Pew said in a July 2024 report that the illegal immigrant population had likely increased over the past two years. One of the factors cited for that outlook is record levels of encounters with migrants at US borders in 2022-23.

More Indians are trying to hide
Between October 2023 and September 2024, more than 90,000 Indians were caught trying to cross into the US across its land borders with Mexico or Canada. The so-called Dinky Route, which involves using land borders to illegally pass through multiple countries for the purpose of targeting. It is becoming increasingly popular among Indians. The number of Indians arrested by US border officials has tripled between 2021 and 2024.

Most illegal immigrants from Mexico