Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a telephone conversation on Monday with Donald Trump, a week after his second inauguration as president of the United States, sources familiar with the matter told NDTV.
Shortly after Trump assumed the position, Prime Minister Modi congratulated his “dear friend” and said he wanted New Delhi and Washington to work closely.
Trump began his second term last Monday with a series of executive actions aimed at reforming American immigration and H1-B visas that allow companies to bring foreigners with specific qualifications to the United States.
India is among the largest sources of legal migration to the United States, but tens of thousands of Indians have also illegally entered the country in recent years crossing the borders of Canada and Mexico.
India is prepared to receive its citizens that reside illegally in the United States, said Minister of Foreign Affairs, S. Jaishankar, after meeting with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in Washington on Tuesday, a day after Trump’s possession.
“We want Indian talent and Indian skills to have the maximum opportunity at the global level. At the same time, we also firmly oppose illegal mobility and migration,” Jaishankar said Wednesday in response to a question about press reports that They said that India was working with the Trump administration in deportation of around 18,000 Indians who are undocumented or that they stayed in the country after the expiration of their visas.
“So, with all countries, and the United States is no exception, we have always considered that if any of our citizens are illegally, and if we are sure that it is our citizen, we have always been open to their legitimate return. India, “he said.
Rubio had “emphasized the desire of the Trump administration to work with India to promote economic ties and address concerns related to irregular migration,” said state department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, in a reading after the meeting on Tuesday .
The most recent American census showed that its population of Indian origin had grown 50 percent to 4.8 million in the decade until 2020, while more than a third of the almost 1.3 million Indian students studying abroad In 2022 they were in the United States.
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