Potential blowback on the economy

The US and India refuse to recognise that undocumented immigrants contribute to the host country’s economy.

In January 2022, four members of a family, from the western Indian state of Gujarat, froze to death at the US-Canada border. The couple and their two children had paid a hefty amount to traffickers to be smuggled into the US for what they thought would be a better life. Instead, they perished in the cold.