Posted on 10/15/2025 7:15:55 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Many Indian-Americans have chosen to remain silent on H-1B changes and immigration struggles. This piece tries to decipher the reason, the pressures facing diaspora communities, and why success should come with responsibility.
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Created in 1990 under President George H. W. Bush, the H-1B program was designed to allow U.S. employers to hire foreign professionals to fill critical skill gaps. What is, in reality, a randomized lottery where every applicant has an equal chance of selection, regardless of nationality, is often mischaracterized as a program favouring Indians, simply because they make up the largest share of participants. Counting visa renewals as new approvals, without acknowledging that this cycle exists because of the restrictive country caps and the green card backlog paints a misleading picture of how the H-1B system actually works.
Despite being one of the most visible and affluent immigrant communities in the United States, Indian Americans remain conspicuously quiet about the struggles of newer immigrants. The backlash that followed Sriram Krishnan’s appointment as Senior Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence in December 2024, kicked up a hornet’s nest revealing an animosity towards the H-1B holders unlike anything seen before. The fear of reigniting such hostility is one reason many hesitate to speak openly in support of the program.
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During my conversation on the Area 51 Podcast with Ajay Bhutoria, former member of President Biden’s AANHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) Commission, he pointed out yet another reason. A growing resentment among some first generation families who fear competition for their children. Having struggled to secure stability and success, many view new immigrants more as potential rivals in an already crowded rat race and less as peers on the same journey.
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That’s normal with any immigrant group.
New immigrants by nature compete mostly with their legal settled countrymen.
They have similar skills and education, so they naturally end up competing mostly with earlier arrivals.
Why should former immigrants support more immigrants from their own country?!
You are talking some nationalist sentiments vs economic harm.
The liberals do not understand it, but economic harm wins 90% of the time.
So the biggest opponents of mass immigration are the legal, settled immigrants!
That’s true with any group, I do not see why Indians would be an exception?!
Exactly, just a couple months ago - Hindu and Sikh political factions were battling each other in streets - of Mississauga Ontario, of all places.
An average Punjabi Muslim, for example, has very little in common with a Tamil Dravidian. When they come to the West, they will stay with their own, speak to their own, work with their own, and hire their own.
And Western/Globalist marxists want to tell us (and them) they are all just "brown South Asians" who should unite in hating the white man and Western Civilization.
Britain’s Civil War will be Hindus vs Muslims.
It’s the lifeboat theory. At some point those ensconced in the boat stop pulling more people in and letting them die less you all die.
Hindu’s are hated and disparaged right on this forum. What are you talking about? Do you know how many million christians live in India? Why are they staying there if they are not happy? Fact is all religions get along well in India even the Muslims. India has more Muslims than any country except two.
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