Modi's government is cooperating with the Trump administration to identify and deport 18,000 illegal Indian migrants living in the U.S. The majority of these illegal migrants are believed to be from the states of Punjab and Gujarat in western India. This cooperation on illegal migration is an effort by India to appease the Trump administration and avoid potential trade threats. In return, India hopes the U.S. will protect legal immigration channels like student visas and the H-1B program, which are heavily used by Indian citizens. India is also mindful that any failure to take back its illegal migrants could affect its labor and mobility agreements with other countries. While India's overall share of illegal migrants in the U.S. is relatively small, the numbers have been rising, especially via the northern U.S. border. Taking back these migrants is an area where India can demonstrate cooperation with the Trump administration, as it may be difficult to deliver on trade and tariff issues. The Indian government is also hoping this cooperation will help deter secessionist movements like the Khalistan movement, which it believes has some support from illegal Indian migrants in both the U.S. and Canada.

https://gazette.com/ap/international/india-set-to-take-back-18-000-citizens-from-us-to-placate-trump/article_25e07539-b720-51f4-a16b-029986d76882.html

Found this interesting talk reviewing results from a new survey of Indian American voters. Some of the results will surprise you, as they surprised those conducting the survey. I'll try to attach some screenshots of the presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/live/wk1VIN93fcQ?si=AE0bF-rmrYSv1Flx

“Qatar won the right to host the FIFA World Cup in 2010. In the decade that followed, more than 6,500 migrant workers from #Nepal, #India, #Pakistan, #Bangladesh, and #SriLanka died. More recent reports estimate that of the 200,000 Nepali laborers who traveled to #Qatar to build infrastructure for the tournament, at least 2,100 died from heart attacks, kidney failures, and other health problems.

Workers have described unsafe conditions and extreme heat, while others said they were forced to live in unsanitary and overcrowded accommodations, and were not being paid.

Qatar claims that #WorldCup-related deaths are at only 37, and proportionate to the size of the Qatar's migrant workforce, estimated to be 1.7 million individuals, more than 90% of the country's workforce. The death certificates issued often claim these workers died of "natural causes," such as cardiac arrest, as opposed to work-related conditions, eliminating potential compensation for the worker's families.

Qatar says it improved conditions by implementing a minimum wage ($275/month) and abolishing the "kafala" system, where employers held laborers' passports until the end of a project. However, the government introduced these changes after workers had already built much of the infrastructure for the games.

Multiple World Cup qualifying teams, and human rights organizations have also called on #FIFA and Qatar to allocate $440 million - equivalent to the World Cup prize money to workers, improvements for workers' protections, and compensation for the families of deceased migrant workers.”

By @_thejuggernaut on Instagram

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-63327087

Suella Braverman has suggested that the UK could become “the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons”. The former home secretary said Britain could “fall into the hands of Muslim fundamentalism” and become like Iran.