Trump immigration plan could hurt Indians |
The Trump administration has sent to the Congress a set of immigration proposals, including eliminating Green Cards for extended families, other than minor children and spouses, that has long been a key pillar of legal immigration from India. Under the new merit-based immigration system, president Donald Trump has proposed eliminating family-based Green Cards for parents and other relatives such as siblings, a major avenue of expansion for the Indian diaspora, to be replaced by those with more skills and ability to fend for themselves financially. The new proposals, which also included southern border walls, tougher asylum rules, a crackdown on minors brought illegally from Central America, were in the nature of conditions set by the administration in return for legalizing nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants called Dreamers. Nearly 8000 of them came from India. They are facing deportation, along with all the others, starting March, if the Congress fails to pass a legislation legalising their stay, which Trump will sign into law if his proposals, meant as conditions, were accepted and included. There was no reference to the H-1B visas used by American companies to hire highly-skilled professional from abroad but some proposals were intended to prevent “replacement of US citizen workers by non-immigrant workers or the preferential hiring of such foreign workers”.
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