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Citizenship in India
在印度的公民
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出示你的證件
India’s hunt for “illegal immigrants” is aimed at Muslims, many of them citizens
印度追捕“非法移民”的目標是穆斯林，其中許多是公民
Amit shah, India’s home minister, calls them “termites” and “infiltrators”. The government will hunt them down and throw them into the sea, he thunders. Unfortunately, it is not just the standard bluster from a nativist politician railing against illegal immigration. Last year bureaucrats in the Indian state of Assam, which has a population of about 33m people, produced a list of more than 4m of its residents whom they consider foreigners, without any right to live there. A further 100,000 people were deemed non-citizens in June.
印度內政部長阿米特•沙阿稱他們為“白蟻”和“滲透者”。他咆哮著說政府會將其捕捉并扔到海里。不幸的是，這不僅僅是一個本土主義政客對非法移民的標準咆哮。去年，擁有約3300萬人口的印度阿薩姆邦的官員列出了一份名單，其中400多萬居民被他們視為外國人，沒有任何權利居住在那里。6月份又有10萬人被認定為非公民。
Mr Shah insists that all these people will be deported. In practice, neighbouring Bangladesh, from which they are said to have migrated, will not accept them, since in most cases there is no evidence that they are anything other than Indians too poor and uneducated to navigate the complex bureaucracy of citizenship. But even if the threatened mass deportations never take place, the process of declaring people aliens, and hauling lots of them off to internment camps, is not only a rank injustice, but also a threat to stability. The supposed illegal immigrants are overwhelmingly Muslim. The purge is therefore exacerbating sectarian tension in a state that saw bloody Hindu-Muslim riots as recently as 2012, when some 400,000 people were displaced. Yet Mr Shah considers the campaign in Assam against illegal immigrants such a success that he wants to replicate it throughout the entire country.
沙阿堅稱所有這些人都將被驅逐出境。實際上，鄰國孟加拉國不會接受他們，因為在大多數情況下，沒有證據表明他們不是印度人，而是太窮、沒受過教育，無法駕馭復雜的公民官僚制度。但是，即使受到威脅的大規模驅逐從來沒有發生過，宣布人民為外國人，并把許多人拖到拘留營的過程，不僅是一種嚴重的不公正，而且對穩定也是一種威脅。所謂的非法移民絕大多數是穆斯林。因此，這次清洗加劇了這個邦的宗派緊張局勢。就在2012年，這個邦還發生了印度教和穆斯林之間的血腥騷亂，當時約有40萬人流離失所。然而，沙阿認為阿薩姆邦打擊非法移民的運動是如此成功，以至于他想在整個國家復制這一運動。
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