Editing Asian Americans (section)

===Illegal immigration===
{{See also|Deportation of Cambodian immigrants from the United States|Illegal immigration to the United States|Deportation of Indian nationals under Donald Trump}}

In 2012, there were 1.3 million Asian Americans; and for those awaiting visas, there were lengthy backlogs with over 450,000 Filipinos, over 325,000 Indians, over 250,000 Vietnamese, and over 225,000 Chinese awaiting visas.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/WaitingListItem.pdf |title=Annual Report of Immigration Visa Applicants in the Family-sponsored and Employment-based preferences Registered at the National Visa Center as of November 1, 2012 |date=November 1, 2012 |work=Bureau of Consular Affairs |publisher=United States Secretary of State |access-date=February 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217034041/http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/WaitingListItem.pdf |archive-date=February 17, 2013 }}<br />{{cite news |title=For Asian-Americans, Immigration Backlogs Are A Major Hurdle |first=Gene |last=Demby |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/01/31/170744897/for-asian-americans-immigration-backlogs-are-becoming-a-major-hurdle |newspaper=National Public Radio |date=January 31, 2013 |access-date=February 5, 2013 |archive-date=February 5, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205160452/http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/01/31/170744897/for-asian-americans-immigration-backlogs-are-becoming-a-major-hurdle |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2009, Filipinos and Indians accounted for the highest number of alien immigrants for "Asian Americans" with an estimated illegal population of 270,000 and 200,000 respectively. [[Indian American]]s are also the fastest-growing alien immigrant group in the United States, with an increase in illegal immigration of 125% since 2000.<ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/travel/visa-power/Indians-fastest-growing-illegal-immigrant-group-in-US/articleshow/4880276.cms Illegal Indians in US] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815205910/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/travel/visa-power/Indians-fastest-growing-illegal-immigrant-group-in-US/articleshow/4880276.cms |date=August 15, 2009 }}</ref> This is followed by [[Koreans]] (200,000) and [[Chinese people|Chinese]] (120,000).<ref name="illegalimmigration">{{cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf |title=Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2009 |last1=Hoeffer |first1=Michael |last2=Rytina |first2=Nancy |last3=Campbell |first3=Christopher |publisher=Department of Homeland Security |access-date=April 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407165222/https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2009.pdf |archive-date=April 7, 2010 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref> Nonetheless, Asian Americans have the highest naturalization rates in the United States. In 2015, out of a total of 730,259 applicants, 261,374 became new Americans.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/us-citizenship-important-asian-immigrants/3767840.html|title=US Citizenship Important to Asian Immigrants|website=VOA|date=March 15, 2017 |language=en|access-date=2019-03-04|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043533/https://www.voanews.com/a/us-citizenship-important-asian-immigrants/3767840.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|US Department of Homeland Security]], legal permanent residents or green card holders from India, Philippines, and China were among the top nationals applying for US naturalization in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/visualization/2015|title=Infographics 2015|date=2017-01-31|website=Department of Homeland Security|language=en|access-date=2019-03-04|archive-date=March 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304173630/https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/visualization/2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Due to the stereotype of Asian Americans being successful as a group and having the lowest crime rates in the United States, public attention to illegal immigration is mostly focused on those from Mexico and Latin America while leaving out Asians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:124622/CONTENT/pols_w3245_2009_weingarten.pdf |title=Asian American Immigration Status |first=Liza |last=Weingarten |author2=Raymond Arthur Smith |year=2009 |work=Majority Rule and Minority Rights Issue Briefs |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=March 4, 2012 |quote=Deemed successful as a complete group, the national immigration debate often leaves out Asians focusing instead on South America primarily. Furthermore, a failed attempt to naturalize can actually result in deportation. Because fluency in English is one of the criteria for naturalization, certain ethnicities within the panethnic Asian American immigrant identity are more strongly affected than others. But Asians are noticeably absent from the immigration debate, according to public radio reports. |archive-date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928075559/http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:124622/CONTENT/pols_w3245_2009_weingarten.pdf |url-status=live }}<br />{{cite book|last=Ngai|first=Mae M.|title=Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America – Updated Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1dzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|date=27 April 2014|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-5023-5|page=2|access-date=March 14, 2020|archive-date=June 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601053859/https://books.google.com/books?id=X1dzAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA2|url-status=live}}<br />{{cite news |last=Yen |first=Hope |agency=Associated Press |date=6 December 2012 |title=Hispanic immigration to US has peaked, Asian immigration is rising |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1206/Hispanic-immigration-to-US-has-peaked-Asian-immigration-is-rising |work=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=14 March 2020 |archive-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601021334/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1206/Hispanic-immigration-to-US-has-peaked-Asian-immigration-is-rising |url-status=live }}</ref> Asians are the second largest racial/ethnic alien immigrant group in the US behind Hispanics and Latinos.<ref name="Estimates from PHC">{{cite news| first = Jeffrey| last = Passel| url = http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf| title = Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population| publisher = Pew Hispanic Center| date = March 21, 2005| access-date = April 11, 2012| archive-date = August 29, 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180829051549/http://www.pewhispanic.org/files/reports/44.pdf| url-status = live}}<br />{{cite web |url=http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/nov/14/asian-immigration-and-myth-model-minority/ |title=Asian Immigration and the Myth of the "Model Minority" |author=Erwin De Leon |year=2011 |publisher=WNYC |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608034024/http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/nov/14/asian-immigration-and-myth-model-minority/ |archive-date=June 8, 2012 |df=mdy }}</ref> While the majority of Asian immigrants immigrate legally to the United States,<ref>{{cite news |title=New Asian Immigrants To US Now Surpass Hispanics |url=http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/06/19/new-asian-immigrants-to-us-now-surpass-hispanics/ |newspaper=CBSDC |date=June 19, 2012 |access-date=June 19, 2012 |quote=While immigrants from Asia often obtain visas and arrive legally, many also sneak across the U.S. border or become undocumented residents after overstaying their visas. |archive-date=June 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622012033/http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/06/19/new-asian-immigrants-to-us-now-surpass-hispanics/ |url-status=live }}</ref> up to 15% of Asian immigrants immigrate without legal documents.<ref>{{cite news |title=How Asians displaced Hispanics as biggest group of new US immigrants |first=Mark |last=Guarino |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0619/How-Asians-displaced-Hispanics-as-biggest-group-of-new-US-immigrants |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |date=June 19, 2012 |access-date=June 21, 2012 |quote=For example, 45 percent of Hispanic immigrants are undocumented compared with about 13 percent of Asian immigrants, according to the survey. |archive-date=June 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621055457/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0619/How-Asians-displaced-Hispanics-as-biggest-group-of-new-US-immigrants |url-status=live }}</ref>