Whats the situation with undocumented Asians?
We never hear about them. The most recent statistics I found from a March 2006 a report estimated the number of undocumented Asians living in the United States in 2005 was about 1.5 million – 14 percent of the 10.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and 12 percent of the Asian population. At the time it was estimated that of the 1.5 million 23 percent were Chinese, followed by Filipinos (17%), Indians (14%), and Koreans (11%). What’s been reported largely has been just the issue of the undocumented and therefore people are under the false impression that most illegal immigrants choose to come in undocumented. People misunderstand how hard it gets to get in the U.S., people believe [illegal immigrants] have a choice to come in legally but don’t. For Asians, a majority came on a student or tourist visa, or temporary employment visa and overstayed so they don’t think of themselves as illegal immigrants because they came with documents and a lot of them are caught in the
