Illegal Migration as a Threat to India’s Internal Security
Among other things, one of the major aspects
that have come out of the recent communal violence in Bodo areas of Assam is
illegal migration. According to the Group of Ministers Report on National
Security, illegal migration
has generated a host of destabilizing
political, social, economic, ethnic and communal tensions. Politically, the
Bangladeshi migrants are in a position to influence the results of the
elections in a large number of constituencies in the North East (about 32% of
the constituencies in Assam). Economically, increased pressure on land,
resulting in depletion of forest wealth, undercutting of wages of unskilled
jobs, forcible occupation of Government land by the migrants and a host of
other such issues, generate a ripple effect in the entire North East. 1
Illegal migration mainly takes place in the
eastern and north-eastern parts of the country from neighbouring Bangladesh.
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