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India’s federal government is cracking down on illegal blue-collar emigration from India as it tries to protect Indians’ white-collar H-1B access to Americans’ jobs and careers.
The crackdown is a political appeasement of growing U.S. anger about the scale of Indians’ migration into the United States. The U.S. anger is a major risk for India’s government, which gains enormous remittances from the movement of Indians into millions of U.S. white-collar jobs via the H-1B program.
At least 750,000 Indians have migrated illegally into the U.S. economy, partly because the growing Indian population of roughly 500,000 H-1B workers supports many Indian-owned businesses and lower-wage service jobs. That commingled legal and illegal movement of roughly four million Indians has been encouraged by multiple Indian and U.S. governments — just as Mexico’s government also encourages migration into Americans’ jobs.
India is a vast, chaotic, and jostling nation of more than 1.4 billion people. Half of the population earns less than $273 per month, so even a few month’s work in low-wage, black-market U.S. jobs is a big draw for young and desperate unmarried men….
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