New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- While the opposition from the MAGA-right to Indians coming in on H-1B visas and as immigrants on professional visas has grabbed the headlines, there has also been opposition verging on racism from the left in the Democratic party on the argument that they depress wages for US-born citizens and take their jobs. Indians are by far the biggest recipients of H-1B visas, getting 72.3 per cent of them last year.

Now President-elect Donald Trump has declared that he is a "believer in H-1B" visas, quashing the opposition to the programme for qualified professionals to work in the US that pitted the right-wing fringe against his advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

"It's a great program", he told the New York Post in a p...