America's 'Strike' On Birthright Citizenship | Legal Indian Infants Could Be Denied Passports

Added: 2026-05-08

[00:00:00]Our lead story this Friday evening comes straight from the US viewers. You see there's high stakes drama unfolding in capital Washington, D.C. as the American dream ballot faces its biggest threat yet for the Indian diaspora. Trump confidant Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky has pulled the trigger on a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship. Now, while the rhetoric is all about illegal borders, the collateral damage is squarely on the backs of legal Indian professionals.

[00:00:27]Let's find out why exactly in the next 2 minutes. First and foremost, you see Senator Rand Paul is moving to dismantle a 150-year-old pillar of the US Constitution. He argues that the 14th Amendment has been exploited. His bill aims to ensure that being born on US soil no longer guarantees passports unless your parents are already elite permanent residents. From a daily perspective, this is nothing short of attack on talent. For millions of Indians on H-1B visas, the techies and doctors who are the very backbone of the US economy, this is straight-up a nightmare. Because of the decades-long green card backlog, a child born to an Indian IT professional tomorrow could be declared a foreigner in the very hospital they were born in.

[00:01:12]This fallout will be catastrophic for US-Indian relationship. If Washington signals that the children of India's brightest aren't welcome, the brain drain might finally reverse.

[00:01:23]>> [music] >> You see, we're looking at a future where Indian talent chooses London, Toronto, or even stays right here in of West Bengal or Hyderabad, leaving a massive void in American innovation and a permanent scar on bilateral ties. But, that's not it. You see, Rand Paul claims he's protecting American generosity, but in reality, he's ignoring the sheer fact that Indian-Americans are the highest taxpayers in his country.

[00:01:48]By turning the children of legal Indian professionals into aliens in their own birthplace, he is very well burying the very bridge of merit that built modern America.

[00:02:00]And this leads us to ask some big questions today. The first of them being, does this betrayal you know, does this betray merit-based legal immigration that has been existing in the country?

[00:02:12]Second big question we're asking this Friday evening is will infants now face statelessness in limbo in America?

[00:02:19]Third big question, is this economic suicide for Silicon Valley? And finally, can Indo-US ties, can New Delhi-Washington ties survive this betrayal?

[00:02:30]Meanwhile, this is the big story we're getting on on India Global this Friday evening. It's our lead story. It's coming straight from the US where there's a high-stakes drama unfolding in capital D.C.

[00:02:42]You see, Trump confidant Senator Rand has, you know, he's from Kentucky, he's pulled the trigger on a constitutional amendment to end the birthright citizenship. Now, while the rhetoric about illegal borders the collateral damage is squarely on the backs of Indian professionals.

[00:02:58]This move comes It's not the first move of its kind. Last year, President Donald Trump, as soon as his second term started, he was against um birthright citizenship and the laws associated with it.

[00:03:11]Now, Trump confidants are following in Trump's footsteps and are questioning the sheer basis of birthright citizenship, by the way, which very importantly has been granted for not one, not two, not 10 or 20, >> [music] >> but a whole 150 years in America.