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It's time for Indians to quit their obsession with the 'American Dream'
India Today ^ | 9/23/2025 | Global Desk

Posted on 10/07/2025 4:21:45 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

For decades, young Indians were told that success meant heading west. Wealth, global recognition, and a career on the international stage could only be earned by leaving home for the United States. Silicon Valley became the promised land, Wall Street the pinnacle of ambition, and the H1-B visa the golden ticket. Families built dreams around it, students tailored their education for it, and India’s brightest minds set their sights on crossing oceans.

But now, that dream faces a harsh reality. President Donald Trump has imposed a staggering $100,000 fee on new H1-B visas, a barrier so steep it threatens to shut the door for millions of skilled professionals. For Indian IT workers, it may mark the end of an era.

(Excerpt) Read more at indiatoday.in ...


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To: marcusmaximus

To many foreigners, “the American Dream” means plunder.


21 posted on 10/07/2025 5:00:32 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Screw them. When I was an IT consultant for the NJ State Judiciary, half of the workers were paid consultants or contractors and about 2/3 of those were foreigners, mainly Indian. Some of them had access to “live data”. Data from several courts. Just a great security system. Not.


22 posted on 10/07/2025 5:06:15 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: fruser1

Might want to reconsider the 19th Amendment too.


23 posted on 10/07/2025 5:10:21 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: marcusmaximus

“..a barrier so steep it threatens to shut the door for millions of skilled professionals...”. As if flooding this country with millions of foreigners, skilled or not, is not a threat to Americans on many, many levels... How about allowing millions of skilled Chinese professionals come to India and live and work there pursuing their Indian dream? Would it be OK for morons at India Today...?


24 posted on 10/07/2025 5:11:11 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: marcusmaximus

Start your own scam center by in India. The Indian Dream.


25 posted on 10/07/2025 5:30:47 AM PDT by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: marcusmaximus

To some extent, a foreigner that “achieves their American dream” has taken that dream from an American.


26 posted on 10/07/2025 5:51:08 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: marcusmaximus

Sickening. They need to create their own dream. The Mumbai Dream.


27 posted on 10/07/2025 5:51:08 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: marcusmaximus

ANYONE who has been to and seen India KNOWS why the young smart ones want to get out.


28 posted on 10/07/2025 6:02:44 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: marcusmaximus

The “American Dream” for Indians is to make a lot of money and then go back to India with it.


29 posted on 10/07/2025 6:08:58 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Even the Chinese are angry about their Dear Leader’s plans to give K visas to Indian locusts.
India is swarming all over the world. Time to stop it.


30 posted on 10/07/2025 6:54:28 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: marcusmaximus

Go home! Go back to riding on the roofs of trains.


31 posted on 10/07/2025 7:02:13 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: marcusmaximus

Speaking of obsessions ….


32 posted on 10/07/2025 7:12:50 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (PLAUSIBLY ANTI-SEMITIC POSTS: Hardspunned 90% Nitzy 88% Right_In_Virginia 84% Liz 50% Mac_Truck 32%)
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To: metmom

If they’re the best & brightest, why aren’t Modi’s minsters moving heaven & earth to get them to return?


33 posted on 10/07/2025 7:31:05 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: marcusmaximus

Why does it seem to me that for the last two or three weeks FR has been deluged with stories about citizens from India being worried about having to go back to their home country? How many of these stories do we need to read about? The H1-B visa program wasn’t created as a public works project to employ Indian citizens, and I am sick and tired of hearing complaints about the program being returned to what it’s original intention was - which was to fill a very small number of jobs that few or no Americans were qualified to do, with foreign workers here on temporary visas. Unfortunately, the program was surreptitiously modified into a device for detaining cheaper labor across a wide variety of industries, all at the expense of American workers who were fully qualified to fill the jobs in question.

Enough with the bellyaching from foreigners about this, particularly the Indians.


34 posted on 10/07/2025 7:48:48 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: marcusmaximus
...for millions of skilled professionals

American IT workers are much more skilled.

35 posted on 10/07/2025 7:49:34 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: ClearCase_guy; All

“ Weird. Almost like they are actually promoting the colonization of America.”
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Well, India is now the country with the world‘s largest population, and they are pulling further away from China every single day. Historically, countries with very large populations do tend to colonize other nations, and India is certainly no different. Oh, they don’t call it colonization, but if it walks like a duck….


36 posted on 10/07/2025 7:50:54 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Jonty30

They come here and vote left and take advantage our economy and then some lecture us or control our info flow like Google
And are pretty rude in general

I’ll try to be more open minded but not my favorite immigrant group like I see Vietnamese or most Cubans


37 posted on 10/07/2025 7:51:11 AM PDT by wardaddy (I now know what “furry” is in)
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To: marcusmaximus

Stay home and make India great again! 😏


38 posted on 10/07/2025 8:04:41 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: marcusmaximus

In days of yore the 1% would go around the globe stripping continents of their metals, minerals, and natural resources to profit only themselves. Today while continuing that enterprise, the 1% also strip continents of their people and the crumbs they allow to fall from their table are becoming nonexistent.


39 posted on 10/07/2025 8:06:57 AM PDT by anonsquared
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To: Ancesthntr

There’s going to be a lot more whining from the Indians and the H1B pimps. Especially after the H1B CEOs respond to the Senate Judiciary Committee inquiries on Friday.


40 posted on 10/07/2025 8:08:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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