It's time for Indians to quit their obsession with the 'American Dream'

India Today ^ | 9/23/2025 | Global Desk

[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.

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[pburgh01]

Trump is doing the Houdini act once again. Meaning he is having the courts sort out the $100,000 fee for H1B lotteries while on other hand, just abolishing the program all together...which I personally hope and think it is.

[Bon of Babble]

Good.

You can use all that “exceptional talent” the media and lefties tell us we “can’t live without” to fix your own country.

You can start with the sewer system and stop people from using the streets as their personal toilets.

[metmom]

Question of the ages.......

[bobcat62]

The answer is remittances.

[metmom]

Or like the Chinese, spying and infiltrating to ensure the destruction of the US.

Although, I never quite got that sense from the Indian population. However, they do seem to love their money.

The US needs to really do something to stem the flood of money leaving this country for foreign shores. and I recognize that there are American interests who many have family members who occasionally need money or business interests that have legitimate reasons to transfer cash within the business, but the remittances to associates of illegals or green card holders or those on temporary student or work visas, at the very least, needs to be severely curtailed.