He wants the US to take over Gaza and turn it into a Riviera.. He wants to bring back plastic straws. And he is deporting Indians who are in the US illegally by the planeload. This is Sandip Roy in Kolkata. But why by military aircraft? Surely that flies in the face of his pledge to CUT costs. Military aircraft costs a lot more than a commercial carrier. But Trump uses military planes and handcuffs and chains to drive home a point.
Trump wants everyone to take note of pictures of handcuffed migrants tied together boarding a military aircraft. India, not just Mexico and Central America, is a major source of illegal migration to the United States.
Pew estimated the number of Indians residing without valid documentation in the USA at , MA1: there are a lot of wealthy, successful Indians. All of you can name at least five people who you know, who have gone to America and done very well financially, but those are not the people that interested me. What I wanted to see was, who are the Indians that have been transformational. The techies. People in medicine.
And increasingly, people in the public sphere. Indians are the model minority with the highest capita income, the best educational qualifications and the lowest crime rates. Even in the model minority not everyone gets to be top model. Many desis were upset by the images of Indians in chains. But when anti-immigrant fever rises, Desis are just as brown as anyone else. While the income of the top 1 percent jumped percent.
Immigrants are a bogeyman propelling parties to power all across Europe as well. And anyone that thinks the American dream is dead. Just look right here. You're talking to a first generation Indian kid who's about to lead the law enforcement community, the greatest nation on God's green earth. That can't happen anywhere else. The model minority American Dream story gets another feather in its cap. But the shattered American Dreams of those other Indians in chains, the deportees so glaringly visible now, remind us that they too are indisputably part of the Indian story in America.
