Asylum seekers from India- A report

Asylum seekers from India- A report

In what is increasingly being seen as a strange phenomenon, a reportedly large number from people are seeking asylum in the US from India. To those unfamiliar with the system of seeking asylum, it is a process that allows a foreign national to seek refuge in a state showing that circumstances within their own country are no favorable for them to stay in that country. Seeking asylum in a country is an extreme step that is usually applicable under severe or extraordinary circumstances. There is a of course a difference between refugees and those seeking asylum (though the difference is subtle). People who are outside the US must apply for refugee status while those who have already made it to the United States (usually by entering illegally) apply for an asylum status.
Why the seeking of a large number of Indians seeking asylum is a reason to worry as well as be cautious and suspicious is because of the circumstances under which a person can seek asylum. The US law states that you must meet strict requirements, to see asylum. These are:

You are unable or unwilling to return to your native country because you face persecution there or have been persecuted there in the past and have a well-founded fear of the same if you go back.
The second rule, which could be more worrying in this case, states that –‘The reason you have been (or will be) persecuted is connected to one of five things: your race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or your political opinion.’

According to a TOI report ‘The United states has seen a mysterious surge of asylum seekers from India entering America illegally through the southwestern desert state of Arizona bordering Mexico.’

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