A few Indian Americans who have curried favor with trump administration are causing irreparable harm to the ethos of this country
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Indian immigrants often use those privileges to gain proximity to whiteness, which in this context means proximity to the power of the state, or more specifically, the Trump administration."
"The Republican Hindu Coalition was started by Chicago business owner Shalabh Kumar, one of the largest individual donors to Trump’s campaign. This group had the dubious honor of hosting what was apparently the only immigrant campaign rally for Trump’s electoral campaign in 2016."
In Sanskrit the word “Shalabh” stands for Locust
Indeed, at least thirteen million more children and adults who were already using Medicaid's behavioral health services before Obamacare took effect could find such basic benefits as medications and psychiatric care sharply curtailed or virtually impossible to obtain. In part, that's because the GOP health care bill and the Trump administration intend to place a fixed cap on all federal Medicaid spending through either "block grants" or per-person spending limits that also give leeway to states to slash their own spending on the program; these rigid federal spending limits also could prevent states from adding new Medicaid patients even in the case of a recession or a Zika-style epidemic. Even if stand-alone bills to drastically restructure Medicaid can't pass Congress now, Price and his new director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Seema Verma, have plenty of power to grant draconian administrators broad freedom to clamp down on the program through "Section 115" waivers.
"The time now is for progressive Indian immigrants to actively push back on this these efforts, using every platform and family network we have. Progressive South Asian-Americans must address the fissures created and exacerbated by white supremacy. We have to ask ourselves, what do these choices do to us as a community? And how do they affect our relationships with other communities of color, particularly when they converge with the larger problem of white supremacy? Every single progressive South Asian organizer and organization in the country must call out those in our communities who are leading these misguided policy campaigns and defeat this legislation."
In Sanskrit the word “Shalabh” stands for Locust
We must call out this white supremacist idea that there are “shithole” countries and ideal countries for immigration. There is no place for validating racist narratives like this, period.
The coalition has attempted to strike a narrow path between anti-Muslim nationalism, libertarian limited government, and US protectionism.
But this isn’t India. The average American immigration officer cannot distinguish between a Hindu surname and a Muslim one and the average white nationalist won’t bother to ask what you are before he shoots.
But America has always operated on the premise of “last in, first out.” It is naïve to think that any amount of favour curried by a minority population will save them in the end. Loyalty tests didn’t save Japanese-Americans from being interned during World War II.
Are a few feeble words in Hindi enough to convince us? Is an H1-B visa worth it? Is it worth turning a blind eye to the fear and humiliation suffered by millions of innocent people in this country and around the world? Is it worth diminishing and white washing those very real consequences for our own peace of mind? Is it worth supporting mothers being separated from children at the border? Is it worth being gunned down at your local bar? Even privileged minorities are not immune to having the rug pulled out from under their feet. Instead of cowering in the shadow of power, we must stand fight for ourselves and for one another.
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