{"id":13624,"date":"2020-02-03T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/india-migrants-mexico-us-border"},"modified":"2020-02-03T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:30:09","slug":"scared-for-my-life-why-more-indians-are-joining-migrants-on-risky-journey-to-reach-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13624","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Scared for my life\u2019: why more Indians are joining migrants on risky journey to reach the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many US immigration lawyers say the rise in undocumented Indian migration is linked to the rise of the Hindu nationalist ruling party \u2013 and the sectarian violence it has inspired<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, 24, and his wife were eating dinner at their home in the north Indian state of Gujarat when rocks crashed through two front windows. As they took cover, Kumar said he glimpsed a car driving away \u2013 with a bumper sticker for the country\u2019s Hindu nationalist ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata party or BJP.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months later, the couple were riding their motorcycle home one night after canvassing a nearby village for the Indian National Congress party, the BJP\u2019s main rival, ahead of the country\u2019s general election last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/03\/india-migrants-mexico-us-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many US immigration lawyers say the rise in undocumented Indian migration is linked to the rise of the Hindu nationalist ruling party \u2013 and the sectarian violence it has inspiredKumar, 24, and his wife were eating dinner at their home in the north Indi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,1083,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13626,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions\/13626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}