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Despite being the 5th largest economy, India still faces significant challenges in wealth distribution and visa compliance. While economic strength is a factor in visa approvals, it is not the only consideration. One major issue is visa misuse and overstaying. With a population of 1.4 billion, even if 10% were to overstay in foreign countries, that would be 140 million people—almost half the population of the United States. This creates serious concerns for immigration systems worldwide, leading to strict visa vetting processes for Indian applicants.\nFurthermore, while India’s economy is large, the majority of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. A high GDP does not necessarily mean the average citizen enjoys financial security. Many people seek better opportunities abroad, sometimes through illegal means, which further justifies the need for stringent immigration policies.\nAnother issue that affects how Indians are perceived abroad is the behavior of some tourists. While not all are at fault, a growing number of incidents involving disrespectful behavior, disregard for local laws, and unruly conduct have led to Indian tourists gaining a negative reputation in some countries, including Nepal. This has made them among the least desired tourists in certain regions.\nUltimately, visas are not just about how much money a country has. Factors like overstays, illegal migration risks, and tourist behavior all play a role in shaping immigration policies. Respect and reputation are earned, not entitled. If you want to be welcomed and respected abroad, it’s essential to create a positive impression through responsible actions and cultural sensitivity.

Thank you God for our border patrols and I want them to know that they are sooo appreciated!!!!!! This is our country!!!!! We could not enter theirs without everything being legal and us paying our dues, so guess what you want to come to our country do it the right legal way,!!!!! Like other immigrants have done soooooo legally

Calling illegal immigrants just migrants is like calling Japanese sex offenders just Japanese. While technically they are Japanese, but would you say “let’s throw the Japanese in jail?” Sounds wrong doesn’t it.

The illegal immigrants are criminals. So no shit they get treated like that…..

Liberal media is killing me. Ok, Trump sucks but let's be real are they here illegally or not? If they are here illegally, how does it matter that they are treated like criminals? NO one said they are here to seek asylum so what exactly is the problem with treating criminals like criminals. I don't vote so none of this shit matters to me but seriously this is why the left lost the race. Black people like me are laughing at these immigrants thinking they are white but oops! Seems like racist America likes black people more than immigrants. Indians, Asians, and mexicans have been shitting on black people and we have been telling you FAFO. Have a nice flight!

Because of some peoples mistakes other genuine people have to suffer. Which country will tolerate indiscipline and illegal activities. They have set of rules put up by every country which needs to be followed if you don't will be thrown out like what's happening now. Governments should track down illegal consultancies and bring them to justice. Just to earn a buck these consultants bring illegal immigrants and leave them. Which is hampering our country's image and destroying it. These illegally immigrants dont understand about our country.

Most other countries in the world will utilize deadly force to protect their borders. The free ride is over. They are all living here on U.S. citizens backs. Democrats are naive enough to think they are harmless immigrants just looking for a better life. You know how many Chinese spies, terrorists, millions of fentanyl pills etc. were just walking in without as much as an I.D. check. That's why our cities look like post apocalyptic waste zones. El Salvador President said he'd take the gang bangers and criminals. Go there. He has shelter.

MARC STEWART... yo pathetic liar (like every CNN 'reporter is). Did you show the News channels that celebrated the illegals being chained and return d(Republic TV et al). What you saw were a miniscule set of unimportant politicians holding placards.\nTrust me (as anIndian LEGAL Immigrant) , I am proud of what President Tump is doing.

He looks like Irish immigrant

This is stupidity, do those illegal immigrants who broke the law expect to be greeted back like they won in the Olympics. They should be given an harsh punishment for the expenses and effort incurred to send them back.

I'm all for legal immigration but I don't think the US can handle any more people at the moment. I don't know about anyone else, but it's been brutal for me personally to find a job for a couple of months just to get by until my other job is good to go for the season. I've never had to claim unemployment (I always found another job within a week or two), and I've been suffering for the past 6 months. I'm more than qualified for some of the applications I have filled out, but yet I feel like just because I'm a white woman, I get skipped over. I've applied to around 50-70 jobs and only had 2 interviews. Thankfully, I still live at home, but if i didn't, I'd be wayyy more screwed. I believe America needs to take care of it's legal citizens first, then we can worry about others.

Ignored modi just like ICE ignored illegal indian immigrants??

Don’t they understand that being in the USA illegally could land them in Guantánamo Bay Cuba for cruel and unusual torture by the USA? Why on earth would they want to come into a country like the USA which is declining? There is no freedom or liberty here. The USA is still a master and slave economy just in different ways with white supremacist British Americans leading the master and slave relationships.\n\nThey should really stay in their countries and force renewal of those countries \n\nBut the US is dying, and the end of the USA is approaching. Clearly the British Americans, who are in charge see this and will either commit suicide of the country or commit mass genocide of the Americans while the British Americans escape. \n\nThe USA is no great place to be \n\nThe conversation in the USA is strictly between the white masters excuse me, the British ethnic white masters and their black slaves, who are basically wage slaves. \n\nThree chairs to the Mexican border patrol, and Mexican police trying to contain this massive crowd. \n\nI strongly suggest that businessman who are Mexican citizens who can manage soccer stadiums filled with these illegal immigrants help to contain this population of liberation seekers, and two persuade them into becoming citizens of central or South American countries or of other countries, such as Eurasia, Africa, Australia, and such where they probably would have a better Sense of stability, especially in mainland, Europe, but not the United Kingdom, which is the troublemaker behind each of their countries problems

Don't like Illegal immigrants , kind of like Illegal Israeli's in the west bank and gaza.

They don’t look like American migrants, they look like Illegal Immigrants. \nStop using the terms interchangeably!

Basically, for the past four years, Biden, Harris and the Democrat Party have spent hundreds of billions of US tax dollars flying illegal immigrants in and basically leaving America’s borders in Mexico and Canada wide open to mass illegal immigration. Then they lied to the American people about the real numbers and how bad the problem really was. In the past few years, the Democrats have spent billions throughout all of our federal agencies via misappropriated US taxpayer funds that were earmarked for American citizens or American infrastructure and development, then used these misappropriated, taxpayer funds to provide housing, food, education, medical care, and in most cases, luxury hotels. Just within the past two weeks FEMA spent over $500 million to provide luxury hotels for illegal immigrants yet a few weeks ago they were still claiming that they didn’t have enough money to help American citizens who suffered catastrophic loss during recent hurricanes and wildfires. The simple fact that Democrats got more upset that Elon Musk bought Twitter than they are, that their own political party in government for the past four years, has literally been holding them at gunpoint and forcing them to pay taxes so that they could steal it or launder it into their own campaigns and pockets is literally disturbing! WTF!!!! If any of those other federal agencies are ran or funded the way U.S. AID were, with the massive corruption, misappropriation, fraud and theft of taxpayer funds, then I hope DODGE goes through an completely audits, every single federal agency in the United States. No wonder the Democrats are freaking out the way they are, if the Republicans got caught this bad with their hand in the taxpayer cookie jar, then you know the Democrats would be screaming a different tune. The Democrats are trying to manipulate taxpayers into believing utter nonsense like their phrase “ no one voted for Elon Musk. “ but in reality no citizen ever votes for the hundreds of the civilian presidential appointed positions to run these federal agencies, every new president pics/appoints to these positions every term. It definitely explains why hard-working tax paying men and women are getting completely ripped off and robbed every time they look at their paycheck and see how extremely and unnecessarily high taxes are now. The Democratic Party has completely destroyed its reputation with the American taxpayer, they got completely exposed for their corrupt, anti-American, extremist, radical,and woke liberal agenda. They were absolutely using tens of millions of US taxpayer funds to finance terrorist organizations like the Taliban and Isis, billions of US taxpayer funds, pushing their racist and sexist woke liberal DEI agenda across the globe, they were absolutely bribing corporate news media to control the narrative and manipulate the American people to influence elections via corporate news media subscription payments to very left, leaning news organizations, such as politico and others, that were clearly and obviously bribes to the media, just one of the NGO of many organizations under U.S. AID paid $75,000 of taxpayer money a year for a Digital subscription to politico’s corporate news outlet , that any one could sign up for $10 a year like any other news outlets digital subscription. The list of fraud, corruption, and very obvious US taxpayer funds theft, just goes on and on and on. I think the worst betrayal of it all is the fact that any US tax paying citizen or to steal one single US tax dollar from the government, we would be publicly arrested, put in handcuffs, charged with a felony, and prosecuted to the absolute max, the law would allow, but these Washington elite politicians are allowed to do this without even a public slap on the wrist is the most disgusting and devious, betrayal, and loss of trust that the American taxpayer has ever known.???????????????????????????????????????????

As an Indian, I don’t object. Illegal immigrants are Criminals. They should be brought to their home country like how prisoners are taken to their home country.

I find it very difficult to feel any sympathy for these ILLEGALS resorting to doing ILLEGAL s h i t like this. This only goes to prove that placing an order to have them removed in the first place was and is the right and BEST decision made. Tired of them playing the victims. \n\nIF YOU BREAK THE LAW - YOU HAVE COMMITTED A CRIME... AND YES THAT MAKES YOU A CRIMINAL. \n\nIf you want to come here, do it the right and leg way. If not, dont get all a s s hurt about ICE detaining you and your family and deporting back to your home country. \n\nThis applies to ALL UNDOCUMENTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...

Right like our American ancestors did… wait oops they immigrated and annexed the Natives of america. Hmm.

Indians Go to canada usa And uk And poland Name of student visa After Arraival Destination Violation Immigration rules Illegal work like Prostituion Must punish And deport

There should be immigration based on economic gaps like builders , plumbers etc

The illegal immigrants deserve to be treated not as like criminals.. save the handcuffs n released their chains..

Sorry but I don't like seeing People chained like this because they are illegal immigrants... It's one thing to deport them. Understand that, and it's important, but.. most of the Indians didn't do anything to deserve this treatment....

No other country treated illegal immigrants like this.

EVEN DEVIL NEVER FO LIKE THIS ,INNOCENT CITIZENS OF INDIA ??WENT FOR EMPLOYMENT BECAUSE NO JOBS IN INDIA NO FREE EDUCATION IN INDIA UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY OF FAMILIES IN INDIA TO SAVE THE FAMILIES FOR SURVIVAL DID GOOD SERVICE IN USA DURING COVID PANDEMIC PAID INCOME TAX NOW BRANDED ILEAGAL IMMIGRANCE HIGHLY CRIMINAL BY TRUMP .COMMON WORKERS TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS ENTIRE WORKERS AS LABOUR'S ALL OVER THE WORLD MUST STRIKE AND SUPPORT ALL FALSE ALIGATION DEPORTATION. ALMIGHTY GOD PUNISHMENT IS SURE.

They’re treated like the criminals they are. This administration is making it crystal clear breaking US immigration laws is a criminal act

Appalling that they are treated like terrorists. Best stay if you can in your own country rather than be treated like that. USA does not deserve any immigration at all.

America is doing what is right for them. There are lakhs and lakhs of illegal immigrants in America allowed to come in by democrats, I heard most of them had voting rights, States like California, Florida, Los Angeles, New York are flooded by illegals allowed in by Democrats to win elections.Now the Republicans are sending them back, simple.America made the mess and America is cleaning it.

I'm pretty indifferent to the immigration issue, I can see both sides arguments but... Complaining about restraints and acting like they were treated inhumanely is just loser talk.

There are immigrants in the USA, and then there are ILLEGAL immigrants in the USA, (Two different groups of people) and CNN is deliberately misleading their viewers, by calling them 'immigrants' when they are criminals that deliberately broke the law when crossed the USA border illegally. THAT is why they are being treated like criminals... because they are! (It's that simple folks.)

All Illegal immigrants are criminals.....therefore you are typically handcuffed. Just like if you were breaking into someone's house and you got caught.

Dear Indian people. I m a legal white immigrant myself and don’t fool yourselves, Americans don’t like you.\nNot my words but i have worked with them for 35 years.\nI hear it daily, legal or not, they don’t like you.

It is natural and normal that people from a poor undeveloped country like India will try to migrate to a rich developed country like USA for betterment of life, not for committing crime there, legally or illegally.\nThis is the Shocking Truth of Human Society.\nGovernment of USA has full rights to punish those illegal immigrants but don't have right to treat them like animals, it is the exposure of the Hateful Feelings only.

Hey immigrants, bum rushing the USA no longer an option. The welfare program for our own idiots is expiring. So has the one for you. We literally can’t afford it. The Dems lied. This is not the land of milk and honey. Welfare heaven doesn’t exist. Go home. Work, sweat and toil every day like we do.

Just like America is sending illegal immigrants back to their country.\nSimilarly, illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya infiltrators must also start being sent back to their countries.\nIllegal immigrants and their supporters are all criminals. \nThose who are supporting illegal immigrants should also be thrown out of India.

No, American citizen is not losing no work because American citizens don't even like to do no. Type of job Use to be people in government leave the immigrant alone. They are the one that come here and do ali's dirty work.People who have green card and citizenship not doing no type of dirty work period

Scenes like this give me even more respect for Border Patrol agents. Thanks to each and every one of them. Keep every illegal immigrant from entering our borders.

Title of story misleading. Sounds like legal immigrants are being rounded up. Ignoring the crimes they committed. Leaving out the criminal history is poor reporting.

This isn't a surprise to the 70+ million people who voted for Trump. It's exactly what they voted for, so what's the story here again, feelings? Geez. They'll be fine. They're not being injured, and no one cares what India thinks of the US. India has preferred Russia to the US for a while now anyways. They've hated America for years. Borders will be wide open again like CNN prefers soon enough. I'm hoping they pick up the pace. There's only 4 years to file out as many people as possible who have broken US immigration laws. Chop chop

Like criminal? ? Yha cnn iligel immigrants it's a crime.

When we look at Trump's view, he looks like to be right because he wants to send immigrants, such as Indian and Pakistani, back to their countries to remove those who have committed or may potentially commit crimes. However, he does not implement this decision in a way that aligns with human rights. Therefore, he should solve this immigration problem in a way that respects human rights.

If one commits a crime of breaking US laws in US, what should we do? Give them a trophy? Immigration laws are laws that only criminals break. So, why should criminals not be treated like criminals? That's what they are. If you do not wish to be treated like a criminal, don't commit crimes.

I mean treating undocumented immigrants like criminals is despicable and disgusting, but India also supported Trump hard for years so..

Because of the eyes of the immigration department since you broke the law by coming in illegally, they’re gonna treat it like a criminal, which is bogus. They are not tattooed or gang related. They just wanna work. Have a better life.

I am indian if they are illegal they need to be kicked out nothing wrong in this just like in our place we want to kick out bangaladesi illegal immigrants......??????

I don't understand why immigrant diasporas like Latinos, South Asians and Arabs supported Trump. Today's Right Populism is fueled by xenophobia more than historical antiblk racism. They were always openly bigoted along American vs. non-American lines, unlike white vs. Black like the years before. People need to catch up.

They were treated like the CRIMINALS they were. Stop violating US immigration laws. Got it, get it, good!!

Did they commit serious crimes to be handcuffed like that or they were just Illegal immigrants. Is there any protocol.

They can't say there criminal illegal immigrants instead there called migrants.And then they make sure to say they were treated like criminals ,which they are. How long was the trip from India to the USA?Because we sure heard about how long the flight to India was.

I doubt anyone really cares. Criminals usually are treated like criminals. Illegal immigrants in the U.S. usually cry about how bad they had & have it. They're just mad they can't get those free white & black working tax dollars they got use to. Thy should charge them for the plane ride home since they didn't get a free ride to break into our country.