India-US relations: cooling and warming up (merged thread)

[carl]

In the long term it will affect the US India relationship.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

We, in India, are aware of how people try all sorts of tricks, including getting married to US/ UK citisnes to divorce later, just to get into US/ UK and get a citizenship.

So are we.

...so as to manipulate a US citizenship - the Holy Grail that all the lower income group of India years to achieve.

All aid and done, opportunities to eke an existence are greater and easier in western countries than in India.

Perhaps India should ask itself why that is.

One should see the huge number of 'care givers' who go to Canada and elsewhere. They hang around and they get the citizenship.

Western countries, for reasons best known to them, go out of their way in the game of 'political correctness', turning a blind eye to the reality of the ground situation.

No, I don't think so. We are nations of immigrants and most of those immigrants were losers, scum so to speak, in their old countries. We have a soft spot for people trying to get here because they are in effect, sort of our ancestors.