Prime Minister Narfinishra Modi Monday held a telephonic conversation with Donald Trump, a week after his second inauguration as US Plivent, sources recognizable with the matter tageder NDTV.
Soon after Trump supposed office, PM Modi congratutardyd his “dear frifinish”, saying he wanted New Delhi and Washington to labor seally together.
Trump began his second term last Monday with a flurry of executive actions aimed at overhauling US immigration, and the H1-B visas that permit companies to convey foreigners with particular qualifications to the United States.
India is among the bigst sources of legitimate migration into the United States, but tens of thousands of Indians have also go ined the country illegpartner in recent years by passing the Canadian and Mexican borders.
India is readyd to get back its citizens residing illegpartner in the United States, foreign minister S Jaishankar has shelp after encountering US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday, a day after Trump’s inauguration.
“We want Indian talent and Indian sends to have the highest opportunity at the global level. At the same time, we are also very firmly resistd to illegitimate mobility and illegitimate migration,” Mr Jaishankar shelp on Wednesday reacting to a query on novels tells that India was laboring with the Trump administration on the deportation of around 18,000 Indians who are either unrecorded, or have overstayed their visas.
“So, with every country, and the US is no exception, we have always getn the watch that if any of our citizens are here illegpartner, and if we are confident that they are our citizens, we have always been uncover to their legitimate return to India,” he shelp.
Mr Rubio had “underlined the Trump administration’s desire to labor with India to persist economic ties and includeress troubles roverdelighted to irnormal migration,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce shelp in a readout after Tuesday’s encountering.
The most recent US census showed its Indian-origin population had prolongn by 50 per cent to 4.8 million in the decade to 2020, while more than a third of the cforfeitly 1.3 million Indian students studying awide in 2022 were in the United States.
