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US Indians feel the MAGA heat, and it’s not pleasant
Once seen as model citizens, they are now in the cross hairs of xenophobia. Is the US harming itself?
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A US Air Force aircraft carrying Indian migrants deported from the United States, lands at the Guru Ram Das Jee International Airport in Amritsar on Feb 5, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
SAN FRANCISCO - On a brief visit to the US in February, I was told of a successful Indian couple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who’d left the city that had been their home for two decades and moved to a metropolis on the West Coast of the United States.
Naturalised Americans both, the doctor-lawyer pair had lived a full life in culturally vibrant Milwaukee.
