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...fence, that the leadership hasn't sold out and turned India into a U.S. pawn. The challenge is to spin the nuclear deal as necessary for the country's continued prosperity - and as a bellwether signaling India's rising stature in the global community. The agreement, writes columnist Seema Chishti in the Indian Express newspaper, is a step toward "deciding what kind of India would rise to engage with the rest of the world and its neighborhood...
...Once on U.S. soil, workers have virtually no recourse against an employer who doesn't hold up their side of the bargain. "Temporary guest-worker programs are built around the needs of the employer," says Muzzaffar Chishti, of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank that studies immigration issues. The 89,000 H-2B workers entering the U.S. annually are bound to their employer and have no right to legal counsel. Yet there is no government agency that can force the companies to abide by their contracts, he explains. "It's today's version of bonded labor...
...example, in 1959, there were five Chinese-owned sewing shops in New York," Chishti said. "Now there are more than...
...Chishti said the majority of immigrants who come to the U.S. are young and willing to work. They add to the local economies and require little health care...
...Chishti said that the problem of illegal immigration might appear more serious than it is because immigrants tend to cluster in just ten major cities in six states...