1.9 million people don’t have these documents in Assam alone. Roughly 40% of these are Bengali Hindus who can fall back on the CAA and claim they are a discriminated minority from neighbouring Bangladesh even though they could have migrated anytime after 1951.
It might be a general concern that people do not possess evidentiary documents especially if you are posting from the West. However it is a fact that many people have not bothered to get the paperwork made - 1.9 million in Assam alone.
The wider issue is that the Bengali Hindus have a ‘get out of jail’ free card - CAA - one that discriminates against Muslims who find themselves in the exact same position as their Bengali brothers.
Firstly you need to understand the term illegal immigration is a violation of the law for any country.
You need to understand that every country picks and chooses who it would like to give amnesty too.
Illegal Mexican immigrants have gotten amnesty on many occasions in the US where as a lot of hardworking Indian and Chinese workers despite being in the upper tax bracket have been living for ages under visa restrictions.
A country picks and chooses whom they want to give refuge to. It happens in Europe,N.A pretty much every where in the world.
If Majority of illegal immigrants happen to be Muslims and are deported and a few minorities are given amnesty under the CAA as persecuted minorities I don’t see an issue.
Now if majority of them are minorities then there is a bigger issue of persecution in these neighboring countries like everyone expects and then obviously the rest who crossed the border will be dealt with as an illegal immigrant should.
Also not everything is straightforward. Someone cannot just say they are Hindu and government will distribute passports like laddoos. It doesn’t work that way. Similarly you just can’t dump someone in another country just like that and say these guys are illegal and the other country will just embrace them with both arms open.
There is a process.
Also don’t think an immigration policy overhaul of this magnitude will just work on having men open their pants to check their religion. It doesn’t work that way.
So either ways you look at it from an Indian perspective this is great attempt to bring a structure to the immigration process and identity of Indian citizens. There will be roadblocks in a system running of chaos for over 70 years to suddenly adapt.