{"id":6603,"date":"2011-07-19T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6603"},"modified":"2011-07-22T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T23:14:53","slug":"the_decade_of_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/the_decade_of_t\/","title":{"rendered":"The decade of the brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via the newstab a data heavy piece in Little India<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

Census 2010 data shows that the Asian Indian population ballooned 69 percent from 2000, to 2,843,391. Thus far, the Census Bureau has released Asian Indian data only for those who reported a single race. When multiracial Indians (those who reported multiple racial identities) are factored in the Asian Indian population will top 3.2 million, according to Little India analysis. \n\nNearly 12 percent of the Asian Indian population in the 2000 Census was multiracial. Little India projects that the final count for the Asian Indian population, including multiracial Indians, will fall between 3.2 million to 3.3 million. <\/b>The Indian population may well have touched 3.5 million, but an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Indians returned to India in recent years after the U.S. economy was jolted by the global financial meltdown. <\/blockquote>\n\n

The multiracial issue touches upon a debate that I had with two of this weblog’s co-founders ~2003: the demographic assimilation or involution of the Indian American “community.”<\/b> I use quotation marks because I think that though there are commonalities and similarities it’s clearly a rather heterogeneous collection of communities, in the plural.Some of this population growth is clearly due to illegal immigration, driven in part by the fact that the Indian American community is large enough that it is viable to just “disappear” once you make it to American soil. Here’s a story about Indians from south of the border, though not<\/i> Mixtec or Maya people as you might expect: More Illegal Immigrants From India Crossing Border<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms.\n\n…\n\nIndians have arrived in droves even as the overall number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. has dropped dramatically, in large part because of the sluggish American economy. And with fewer Mexicans and Central Americans crossing the border, smugglers are eager for more “high-value cargo” like Indians, some of whom are willing to pay more than $20,000 for the journey.<\/b>\n\nIndians have flooded into Texas in part because U.S. authorities have cracked down on the traditional ways they used to come here, such as entering through airports with student or work visas.<\/b> The tougher enforcement has made it harder for immigrants to use visas listing non-existent universities or phantom companies.\n\n…\n\nMany of the Indians apprehended are Sikhs, followers of India’s fourth-largest religion, who tell authorities they face persecution back home and want asylum. Applicants need to convince officials that they have a credible fear of persecution in India. If so, the case is referred to an immigration judge.\n\nSuch persecution was common in the mid-1980s, when the state battled a Sikh secessionist movement, Kumar said. But today the ruling party in Punjab is Akali Dal, a Sikh party, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is also Sikh.\n“It’s all nonsense,” Kumar said of asylum claims.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

These are not the poorest of the poor if some of them are managing to scrounge up $20,000, or were using visa overstays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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