A record 96,917 Indians were arrested while crossing illegally into the US between October 2022 and September 2023, PTI has reported citing latest US Customs and Border Protection (UCBP) data.

As many as 30,010 were caught on the Canada border and 41,770 at the frontier with Mexico between October 2022 and September 2023.

Overall, the US is seeing illegal migration from worldwide. As per the report, 2 million people around the world, were arrested for crossing the border illegally during this period.

As per the data, in 2019-20, 19,883 Indians were apprehended, while in 2020-21, 30,662 Indians were arrested and in 2021-22 this number was 63,927.