Moody and Trump on the same page on immigration Narendra Modi

In February, the air waves in India were immersed in pictures of the undocumented Indians in chains on a military deportation trip from the United States. The horrific images showed the devastating influence that President Donald Trump’s campaign on “illegal immigration” on the lives of thousands of vulnerable Indian citizens who risked everything on their way to America.

Opposition The lawmakers, including the leader of the Indian National Congress Party, Rahul Gandhi, wore handcuffs and protested the insulting treatment of those outside Parliament in New Delhi. With all this, on the eve of Narindra Modi’s visit to the White House, they asked the Indian Prime Minister to take this with the American President.

But during his American press conference, Modi answered questions about the deportation by saying that the BJP -led BJP government was “completely prepared to return illegal immigrants.” he Add: “The youth, weaknesses, and the poor in India are deceived by immigration. These are children from very ordinary families who are seduced with great dreams and great promises. A lot is brought without knowing the reason for bringing them-bringing many through a human tracking system.”

This response was unusually friendly and acceptable for a Hindu nationalist leader known for his muscular existence. Modi seems to have simply tried to avoid a vouodymyr zlenskyy bust with Trump, especially with continuous negotiations regarding mutual definitions. Although this may be true, it is also important to remember that when it comes to immigration, Moody and Trump are on the same page.

Like his American counterpart, Modi relies on major visions and demands about the nation. This includes the advertisements of the Bharatia Gatata Party government on India’s economic health.

at present , Indian economy It faces a worrying slowdown, but there is also a longer and more firm problem: Inequality. In the most overcrowded countries in the world, the best 1 percent has 40.1 percent of national wealth. By the end of 2024, India was 191 BillionairesAnd put it in the third place in the world after the United States and China. At the same time, he is Represent 70 percent of the global increase in severe poverty. India is also the country with The largest population (234 million people) live in severe poverty.

Indian immigrants are not documented in the United States are manifestations of this dark reality. Estimates related to the exact number differ. Pio Research Center It is estimated that there are 700,000 non -documents in the United States at the end of 2022, making the Indians the third largest national group of illegal persons after Mexicans and Salvadorians. The Ministry of Internal Security estimated that there are 220,000 illegal Indian immigrants in the country.

Regardless of the exact volume of the population, this group of uncomfortable persons contradict the pink image of the economic power under the Hindu national leadership. This is why Modi is very keen to close this epic from “illegal immigration” as quickly as possible. He does not want any skirmishes with Trump because of the treatment of illegal immigrants to seize newspaper headlines and expose the cracks in the upward India.

But in Hindu Nationalist India, Trump’s discourse to combat immigration is also strange. For a few years, the Indian right was raising rituals from the issue of a supposed scourge for unrelated migration, especially from Bangladesh.

In 2016, the Minister of Home Affairs at the time Kirin Regio He claimed that there are about 20 million illegal immigrants from Bangladesh in India. ”

nothing Real evidence To support these numbers.

However, for the Hindu nationalists in India, these allegations about the presence of a large number of non -documented Muslim population raises a strong image and fit well with the speech of Islam phobia of a Hindu nation facing an existential threat from its neighbors.

Founding allegations of influencing the threat of “illegal immigration” from Bangladesh to right -wing politicians in India to blame the “outside” not documented in the plot of the country economically deprived. As it was once He said: “They (Bangladesh immigrants) eat pills that must go to the poor.” Elsewhere, Shah called the non -documented immigrants “termites” and “infiltrators” who need to uproot them. While he was on the campaign course in 2019, Shah also I promised The government of the Bharatia Jatata Party “will” capture the infiltrators one by one and throw them into the Bay of Bengal.

These unnecessary allegations also provide Hindu nationalists to exhaust the concerns about the demographic challenge of the Hindu nation. For example, during a television interview, the leader of the Delhi Unit in the Bharatia Jatata Party, Ashwini Obada, hinted that the majority of the Hindu population was threatened.

he He said India was established as a “Hindu Nation”, and this identity has been reduced by “illegal”, “Muslim) Rohingya and” Muslim) covers.

Likewise, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar claimed that “illegal immigration” caused “demographic”. He pointed out that this regiment was offering unjustified pressure on the health and education sectors in the country, depriving employees of job opportunities, and was undermining democracy by acquiring the “election link”. It is too to caution If left without deterrent, Hindu ethnic identity will be undermined through “demographic invasions”.

Finally, it is common to hear from the right in India that “illegal immigration” is synonymous with crime. In a statement to the lower home of the Indian Parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs S Jaishankar He said: “Illegal movement and immigration have many other activities related to it, and also of an illegal nature.” While Jaishankar here was referring to the illegal Indian immigrants in the United States, in India, the authorities likely claimed that there.Well“A criminal network helps immigrants who are not documented to acquire residence, employment, fake birth certificates, and eventually voting rights. This has led to a Trump -like police. Raids And the deportation prompts the targeting of the Bangladeshis and Rohin.

mostly Caught In these raids, Muslim citizens from Bengali in India. A few years ago, a Ticket It revealed that there are more immigrants in Bangladesh leaving more than entering the country. But in the era of climbing the oath, nothing of this is. Whether it is in India or Moody in India, it is always the treacherous crows of blame for problems within the country.

This is the mentality that pushes the anti -immigration waves in both India and the United States. In India, I presented the logical basis for legal maneuver Citizenship amendment Law For 2019, which excluded Muslims from neighboring countries from obtaining Indian citizenship.

Moody may be the Prime Minister of the Hindu National Government, but he will not risk destroying his relationship with Trump in the name of protecting the Indians who are not documented in the United States. Regarding immigration, his views coincide with Trump, and he feels nothing but contempt for people who do not have documents, even when they are Indian citizens.

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