Midwest Chick's Place

India is pitching a hissy because a large number of their citizens who returned home to renew their H-1B visas are having their appointments canceled and so are stuck at home. Of course the Indian government is referring to this as ‘stranded’.

How one can be stranded at home is truly beyond me, however. The Indian government also says that this delay has created a hardship for those impacted. Perhaps they have forgotten that it is a privilege to work in the U.S., not a right. And the delay is so that their social media presence can be checked to make sure they aren’t a danger to the US.

If it’s a hardship, then why? Because they are in India and not in the US? If that’s a hardship, maybe work on your homeland rather than blame the US government for not letting your citizens back into our country pro-forma, which has basically been what’s happening for decades. That’s been laziness on the part of our government and it’s going to take time to correct.

Additionally, for sixty years, Indian visa holders have been taking jobs that should be saved for US citizens with complicity from the US government and companies. It’s about time that the brakes be put on this.