Trump undercuts his own campaign's minority outreach

[brooklynite]

Politico

President Donald Trump went out of his way to court Indian Americans this election year, flying halfway around the globe to headline a rally with more than 100,000 adoring fans.

But just four months after his trip to India, Trump this week blocked engineers, computer programmers and other high-skilled workers — overwhelmingly from India — from entering the United States.

Trump’s order — ostensibly to counter the soaring unemployment of American workers during the coronavirus pandemic — threatens to undermine the inroads his campaign hoped to make with Indian Americans, a fast-growing voting bloc that registers and votes at high rates.

“If this were the case … why in February during Covid times go to India?” wondered Aman Kapoor, president of Immigration Voice, a group that works with Indian foreign workers.

[marybourg]

1. To get election help from Modi, of course.

[Laelth]

2. Evidently, Modi refused to help.

So, Trump said, “Fine. No visas for you.”

-Laelth