User:BengaliHindu/Illegal immigration from Bangladesh to India

Illegal immigration from Bangladesh to India also referred to as infiltration from Bangladesh is the act of entering India without visa or overstaying beyond the expiry of valid visa by Bangladeshi nationals, in violation of Indian immigration laws.

Numbers
In 1991, Mundakkal Matthew Jacob, the then Union Minister of State for Home Affairs stated that there were around 100,000 illegal Bangladeshi nationals in Delhi and 587,000 in West Bengal. In West Bengal, Bangladeshi immigrants had launched an organization called Bangladesh Mohajir Sangstha the previous year. According to them there were 100,000 Bangladeshi nationals in West Bengal and another 500,000 scattered across Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. A team of Bangladeshi journalists too recorded the presence of 150,000 Bangladeshi Muslims in Delhi.