After Shootings, Indians Are Wary of Coming to U.S.
26, 2017
NEW DELHI — Jeena Sharma, 25, was in the process of applying for a work visa to the United States when news came
that two Indian engineers had been shot in a Kansas bar by a man who drunkenly questioned their immigration status.
" she said, "I have found my apprehensions turned up a notch." Sunny Choudhary, 23, said he had decided not to apply to graduate engineering programs in the United States, because, as he said, "recent
conditions, they are turning into, I think, hostile conditions." After Mr. Trump was elected, he added, "my parents said: ‘No, you should not go there. that After a certain event in November,
And close to half a million Indians, who mostly went to the United States legally as students or tourists
or on work visas, have stayed on after their visas expired, the Pew Research Center estimates.
Suguna Kadiyala said that For this four-year period, after the transfer of regimes, I think Indians can come back and serve their country,
Nageswara Rao, 71, whose son and daughter work in the software sector in the United States,
said he was "not much worried," though he does dispense regular advice on safety measures.
"It’s almost as if a brown person is dead, like it doesn’t matter." The body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the 32-year-old software engineer fatally shot in the Olathe, Kan.,
bar, was expected to arrive by Monday in Hyderabad, a technology hub where immigration to the United States has long been viewed as the surest path to success.
News of the shootings, which took place last Wednesday, was quickly eclipsed by other developments in Washington, and even in Kansas,
but the same cannot be said of the Sharma household of Mumbai, where Ms. Sharma has received emphatic maternal lectures about her plans to move, starting first thing in the morning.
