GDP Be Damned - America Is Not India!

Article author: 
White Papers Policy Institute
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
6 April 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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Mass Indian immigration is reshaping America into a parallel society, and a nation that ignores assimilation, sovereignty, and loyalty risks surrendering its future to foreign interests...

... The total Indian-descended population of America is now closing in on and may well exceed six million people. We estimate roughly 5.8–6.2 million Indians now live in the United States, and roughly 3.2 million of them, or about 55 percent, were born abroad. Extrapolating from Pew data, we estimate a further 1.8 million Indians in the US are second-generation immigrants...

In other words, around 80 percent of the Indians in the United States are immigrants and their children. Americans are starting to notice...

Our focus here is on the fact that America is not India, and therefore, there is no reason for the United States and the American people to play host to a large and growing Indian diaspora that seeks political influence and economic control and poses serious cultural and national security risks to the American people...

Our first significant problem is that the Indian diaspora in the United States is viewed as a political tool by India to be used to influence the American government...

Remittances back to India run into the tens of billions annually, and tech leaders of Indian origin frequently channel capital, talent, and know-how back to the homeland, underscoring that economic success in America often serves transnational rather than purely American ends...

Politically, this Indian diaspora acts as a distinct interest group with its own priorities. The Carnegie Endowment data reveals that Indian Americans lean heavily Democrat and express strong disapproval of immigration restrictions, H-1B reforms, and America First economic policies...

Infosys, one of India’s largest IT giants, paid a record $34 million civil penalty to settle allegations of widespread misuse of B-1 visitor visas to perform skilled work that should have gone to Americans or properly authorized H-1B workers. Similar patterns appear across the "body shop" model that dominates Indian IT staffing in the US: fake job postings, benching workers, and circumventing labor protections to flood the market with lower-cost foreign labor...

The bottom line is simple: Indians are not Americans. They are a high-achieving, endogamous, and politically organized foreign diaspora whose presence in large numbers imposes real costs on American wages, cultural cohesion, political independence, and national security...

The American people have every right to demand that their government put their interests first, rather than subsidizing the growth of a parallel society that views the United States primarily as an economic opportunity and political lever for Indian ends. GDP be damned.