Posted on 11/27/2016 8:55:18 PM PST by Jyotishi
HATIMURIA, India -- Eight years ago, a dozen families showed up at this quiet farming village, saying floodwaters had washed away their homes.
They spoke with a different accent, and the villagers wondered if they might be illegal Muslim immigrants who had crossed the porous border from neighboring Bangladesh. Illegal immigration has been a contentious,issue in this northeastern state of Assam for more than three decades.
Yet "we pitied them and gave them refuge," said Lavanya Bisaya, the 56-year-old mother of the village headman.
But as the newcomers' numbers swelled to 200 families, tensions began to mount, until finally villagers were protesting and chanting, "Liberate our land, remove outsiders!" echoing a debate raging across Assam.
As President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to throw out up to 3 million undocumented immigrants from the United States, this remote Indian state of 31 million is in the midst of an effort to identify and "weed out" some of the more than 20 million illegal immigrants from Bangladesh living in India.
Officials launched a laborious effort to certify the Bangladeshi population in India two years ago, but the drive has been infused with new vigor and cash since the governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won state elections in April.
"The Hindu rate of population growth is declining. But the Muslim rate is rising. Most of the Muslims here are from Bangladesh. If this continues, the Assamese Hindus will become a minority soon; we will lose our language, our culture, our identity," said Himanta Biswa Sarma, finance minister in the Assam government.
Fears that terrorist groups with global backing from neighboring Bangladesh would cross over the border to radicalize local youths have also galvanized the effort, officials say.
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Polygamy is allowed for Muslims in India and that results in Muslim population growth much greater than that of al the rest.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Muslims-have-more-children-when-compared-to-other-religions
Migration is stealth jihad.
*Mass deporation - Not really. It will take a long time to get rid of 3 million people.
Not if they self-deport. No jobs, no bennies, goodbye
I have a buddy at work from India who said that they ink the pinky fingernail.
... said the tender-hearted woman to the vicious snake.
Needs to be repeated.
Focus on 1) Terrorists,Terrorists sympathizers. Those who don't support the ideas in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. 2) Murderers, rapists, DUI drivers, etc 3) Welfare parasites. Neither legal, illegal nor refugee should come to the US to collect welfare. 2) and 3) are documented. They are cheap and easy to deport. 1) Is more costly to identify and deport. But getting rid of 2) and 3) reduces the clutter and brings focus on 1).
Remember the big push for Hindu votes by Trump in the last month of the election? I do.
“India also has voter ID so illegals cannot vote.”
True. They have a voter ID law for 600,000,000 voters while we have idiots here who say we can’t do it for less than 170,000!
Its just fine, its the facts of the message. And its the truth.
Let’s start stopping PC speech and in writing. Calling a spade a spade is much clearer.
yes thank you
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