Indians constituted 2% of total illegal immigrants in the US, according to the last publicly available Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data. The absolute number of illegal Indian immigrants in the country dropped from 5,60,000 in 2015 to 2,20,000 in 2022, while their share of the total Indian population in America dropped from 16.6% in 2015 to 6.9% in 2022.