The challenge for the Taiwan government intensified as the main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), backed the petition, labelling the move “highly risky”. The KMT also cited statistics from India’s National Crime Records Bureau, reporting 445,256 crimes against women in India in 2022, including more than 31,000 cases of sexual assault, which it said amounted to about 85 cases per day. It further stated that out of roughly 900,000 migrant workers in Taiwan, about 93,000 had “absconded”. The government, it argued, should prioritise resolving existing issues in its immigration and labour management system rather than introducing a new wave of workers from India.