
The South Asian Impact Foundation is proud to co-sponsor a new web series focused on the challenges and opportunities facing Indian Americans and South Asian Americans under the new Trump Administration.
Please join Seattle University and Roundglass India Center for a 4-part webinar series.
February Webinar Details
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Date: Tuesday, February 13th
Time: 9:00 AM PT/ 12 PM ET
Topic: Visas, Green Card Backlogs, and Undocumented Immigration
It is not until immigration laws were liberalized in 1965 that people from India were allowed to legally emigrate to the United States. The last few decades have seen a boom in Indian immigration largely in the tech sector and other similar industries. Indeed, Indians are the largest beneficiaries of H-1B visas today. There are over 5 million people who trace their roots to India in the U.S. Many of these people came on employment-based visas and now are trapped in jobs waiting decades for green cards due to unfair American laws.
Surprisingly, there is a new trend of illegal immigration from India to the U.S. Indeed, during one year from October 2022 to September 2023, nearly 100,000 Indians were apprehended, expelled, or denied entry at our borders having entered the U.S. without papers. Indian immigrants now constitute the third largest undocumented community in the United States with around 1 million members.
This panel will explore pressing questions, including:
- How will mass deportation plans impact Indian immigrants?
- What changes to H-1B visas and birthright citizenship could be ahead?
- Will Trump’s proposed policies on asylum, and green cards for skilled workers become a reality?
MODERATOR
- Sital Kalantry, Founding Director Roundglass India Center, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the Seattle University Law School.
SPEAKERS
- Muzaffar Chishti, Migration Policy Institute Senior Fellow, and Director of the MPI office at New York University School of Law.
- Jeff Lande, President of the advisory firm The Lande Group and an expert on the potential impact public policy and politics can have on global industrial sectors, particularly on issues related to high-skill immigration and IT outsourcing.
Support our efforts to advocate for fair immigration policies and protect the rights of South Asian Americans
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