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How does illegal cross border migration pose challenges to India’s security? Discuss the steps taken by the government in this direction and their effectiveness.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Under the Citizenship Act, 1955, an illegal migrant is a foreigner who entered without valid documents or overstayed. The main flow crosses the 4,096 km Bangladesh border; a second, driven by civil war and kinship, crosses the Myanmar frontier. Myron Weiner ("Security, Stability, and International Migration", 1992–93) showed that states read migrants as threats for…

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