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‘Cruel joke’: How Indian H-1B dreams are crash-landing after Trump fee hike
Al Jazeera ^ | 9/30/2025 | Yashraj Sharma

Posted on 09/30/2025 2:37:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Thousands of young Indians have mapped their adult lives with the aim of moving to the US, plans that now lie in tatters.

Meghna Gupta* had planned it all – a master’s degree by 23, a few years of working in India, and then a move to the United States before she turned 30 to eventually settle there.

So, she clocked countless hours at the Hyderabad office of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm and a driver of the country’s emergence as the global outsourcing powerhouse in the sector. She waited to get to the promotion that would mean a stint on California’s West Coast.

Now, Gupta is 29, and her dreams lie in tatters after US President Donald Trump’s administration upended the H-1B visa programme that tech firms have used for more than three decades to bring skilled workers to the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


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To: Mr. K

It’s truly an infestation.


21 posted on 09/30/2025 3:01:15 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

And spawn a bunch of anchor babies while she’s here, too.


All sucking off the backs of taxpayers.


22 posted on 09/30/2025 3:01:17 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: marcusmaximus

Don’t tell no jokes...


23 posted on 09/30/2025 3:01:23 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: marcusmaximus

Modi and the Brahman class have hi jacked India for their own benefit is buyong and re selling Russian oil.

India is bad news now in the West. India has allowed INdian gangs such as Bishnoi to come to Canada and assassinate Indian ex pats who live there.Bishnoi is now a declared terrorist org in Canada, where it has assassinated Canadian Sihks who are campaigning for the Independence of the Punjab.Bishnoi is tolerated and secretly supported by the Modi government.

The Modi government will soon fall, but will there be anything left?They are one bad harvest from starvation riots and the West will not help them now if that happens.


24 posted on 09/30/2025 3:09:11 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: marcusmaximus

Oh my. All you racist coolies will have to stay home. Americans have dreams too.

Thank you President Trump!


25 posted on 09/30/2025 3:10:15 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: JayGalt

I voted for this!! What a globalist racket!


26 posted on 09/30/2025 3:11:19 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: JayGalt

There seems to be a processing lag. Next time wait about 10-15 seconds before you punch enter again.

CC


27 posted on 09/30/2025 3:13:09 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (*This is a test of the emergency tagline system. This is only a test*)
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To: Mr. K
I made quite a good living fixing South work created by these H1B Visa holders. And once they’re here for a while and get moved up into higher positions, they only hire other from their country and go out of their way to be difficult to any than is not.

That has been my experience as well.

28 posted on 09/30/2025 3:14:45 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Liz

This about white collar STEM jobs. These are not about low end jobs in the USA . This isn’t about blue collar work. Now American STEM GRADS will have these jobs at good pay that can support families.


29 posted on 09/30/2025 3:16:47 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Liz

They don’t live on welfare. They see the USA as the land of opportunities to work hard and make money and settle. The problem is that this reduces top end work for native born Americand


30 posted on 09/30/2025 3:25:33 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Celtic Conservative

Thanks.


31 posted on 09/30/2025 3:29:21 AM PDT by JayGalt (For America!)
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To: Cronos

Hey EU hack, this is a great thing for America!!!!


32 posted on 09/30/2025 3:34:37 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: marcusmaximus; All

If Trump did nothing else this one thing ensures he goes down as a successful president. Vance 48 better not go back on this!!!


33 posted on 09/30/2025 3:38:01 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Cronos

They don’t live on welfare.


I didnt say they did-—but there’s S/S, free education and health benefits.....etc etc etc


34 posted on 09/30/2025 3:46:54 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: central_va

It’s not great for you in Central Venezuela. Stick to your Spanish language sites, amigo


35 posted on 09/30/2025 3:51:30 AM PDT by Cronos
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They mapped out their lives to STEAL AMERICAN JOBS by corporate shills in Dem/RINO party to get cheap foreign labor by LYING saying ‘no American wants this job.’

Then, once the Indians are over here they only hire “their kind” and are taking over entire American neighborhoods.

They vote majority DEMONRAT party as well.

Get them out. Keep them out.

We don’t need Satan-worshipping 3rd worlders Muzzies or Jeets here. No thank you.


36 posted on 09/30/2025 3:51:45 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: marcusmaximus

Funny.

I’ve never met a single American who planned his/her life around moving to India for a career. I don’t think there are any equivalents to H1-B visas coming from any country worth living in outside of the US.

I’ve known several hippies who went to India to join some guru’s ashram, learn yoga, get high (there are several stoner festivals in that country including one for opium) or just to visit, but MOVE there?

NFW.

Hey, India, like the old Covid19-era song lyrics went, “Stay the F**K at home!”


37 posted on 09/30/2025 3:54:35 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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Good start but we need to get rid of the Indians already here


38 posted on 09/30/2025 3:55:46 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Cronos

They should stay home and educate their countrymen to quit shitting in the rivers; wrapping the dead in cloth and sending them down the river; and quit drinking that water. They believe they are the most beautiful people in the world. Stay home and make India Great Again. Oh, wait. Was it ever?


39 posted on 09/30/2025 4:05:02 AM PDT by healy61
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To: marcusmaximus

Not only does this have the benefit of providing more and better paying jobs to Americans who were being undercut by cheap foreign labor, but this has the added bonus of radically slashing immigration from India. Since most of them vote Democrat its in America’s interest that we reduce the number of them.


40 posted on 09/30/2025 4:09:43 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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