New Delhi (CNN) — US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.

US officials kept around 100 deported Indian migrants in shackles for their 40-hour flight home, including during bathroom breaks, in the latest incident to spark anger overseas at President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown.

Indian lawmakers demonstrated outside parliament on Thursday, some wearing shackles and others mocking the much-touted friendship between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  • Curiousfur@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure I read something from like 2015-2017 that was going over how someone in Trump’s orbit described Indian-Americans as the most MAGA compatible minority group because of India’s long history with Casteism.

    • afronaut@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Yea, and apparently corporatism is a perfect vessel for casteism as well. There have been reports of casteism in American corporate offices. If you violate the caste customs, you get fired, so there’s incentive to uphold both casteism and corporatism.