TOI correspondent from Washington: US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday doubled down on the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration posture, signaling a deepened skepticism toward the H-1B visa program while framing national "loyalty" as the ultimate litmus test for immigrants.
Speaking at TurningPointUSA townhall in Georgia, Vance deflected an Indian-origin student’s question regarding the decades-long green card backlog, instead pivoting to systemic fraud in the program and cultural expectations of assimilation, rather than offering a policy fix for the estimated million-plus Indians currently stuck in the permanent residency queue.
