Posted on 10/07/2025 2:51:06 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Kaushik Raj, a 27-year-old journalist from Delhi, was all ready to live his American dream with a $100,000 (approximately Rs 89 lakh) scholarship in hand to pursue a master's degree in data journalism at Columbia University. But all his plans came crashing down when the United States' immigration department denied his student visa.
Raj, who completed all the visa formalities, including the interview, believes the rejection was linked to his social media activity. Under the Donald Trump administration, social media vetting has become an integral part of the visa selection process.
Speaking to The Washington Post, Raj claimed he wasn't very active on social media and "refrained from publicising his personal feelings about hot-button global issues, such as Israel's war in Gaza."
However, he said that in four years of his journalistic career, he often focused on hate crimes, which was reflected in his social media activities.
Raj's semester at Columbia University was set to start in August, but around that time, he received a letter from the US Embassy in New Delhi telling him his application had been rejected.
The letter said that Raj, who was born and raised in India, had not demonstrated sufficient ties to the country that would “compel” him to return home after his time in the United States. The letter made no mention of his online activity.
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DUH.
“...degree in data journalism”
Maybe he can write journalism on how to build outhouses in India which are sorely needed.
Lefty idiots think these stories elicit sympathy for these invaders. In fact it does the opposite.
How about give that 100k to an American white hetero male ?
>he often focused on hate crimes,
There was a PhD thesis waiting here:
https://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
Or cleaning up the Ganges river by retrieving all the floating dead bodies bobbing up and down.
“One must conclude that a degree in India is sub-par if one is sought in America.”
Actually, India graduates more than the US, see below. Experience tells me they are at least as good as Americans and the fact there are many more says that statistically, they have more “good” ones than we have. The reason Indians come here is to stay.
“India produces approximately 1.5 million engineering graduates annually, making it the largest producer of engineers globally, followed by the United States, which produces around 238,000 engineering graduates each year. This indicates that India has a significantly higher number of engineering graduates compared to the US.”
Good! Bravo Mr President!
You could move to India you anti American creep.
Indian engineers suck.
Degrees from the US are a foothold into the US and give them the acculturation for squishier jobs, such as in “data journalism”.
I take it an /sarcasm was needed as well for the first comment.
There are a lot of people in the West that break out in hives if they see too many White people in one area.
Thanks for telling me what I already knew. I really appreciate that.
Go home Hojie
NWO=0
sounds like ICE did a fantastic job keeping a future illegal immigrant out of the country.
BRAVO and thank you.
P.S. we already had enough 7/11 clerks *cough, cough* I mean hate crime reporters.
When is this great talent going to fix their own country?
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