Gold card visa opens doors for US firms to employ Indian graduates, says President Trump
Washington DC: US President Donald Trump has announced in the backdrop of his new ‘gold card’ visa offer that American companies can use the initiative to hire Indians who graduate from US universities.
President Trump had offered ‘gold card’ visas for $5 million, in place of the old visas, to help the immigrants get US citizenship. Driven by Trump’s mindset of everything being a business, the initiative is set to come into force by April, with around 10 million card visas likely to be offered in the initial phase.
It would also replace the current EB-5 visa program that gives residency to investors for at least $1 million for business houses that have 10 or more employees.
The new announcement is considered to be a boost for Indian students, with the President highlighting on how the current immigration policy had prevented people from all over the world, particularly India, from staying and working in the US. He said that the immigrants study at various universities in the US and apply for jobs, but their applications are rejected as the employer had no clue about the eligibility of the applicant to stay in the US.
When asked about the consequences of the new policy, Trump admitted that talented people who had studied in the US earlier had been forced to leave the country but had become successful entrepreneurs in their native countries. "They go back to India, or they go back to the country where they came from, and they open up a company, and they become billionaires. They're employing thousands of people," he said. He also stressed on the fact that the US missed the economic opportunity of utilizing such talent.
The President has presented his new gold card initiative as a positive alternative to the current green card, stating that the gold card would provide long-term residency and a pathway to citizenship. Calling the gold card program a game changer, Trump said about the card-holders, "They'll be wealthy, and they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it's going to be extremely successful."
The initiative is also considered as a benefit for the US as it would be a means to generate revenue. "If we sell a million (cards), that's USD 5 trillion dollars," Trump said and added that the revenue could be used to pay off national debt.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
