Geopolitics
The Indentured Servant Slur: America's Protectionist Panic and India's Defining Decoupling Moment
The Trump administration has abruptly frozen green card applications for eight major tech firms, including leaders of the Indian IT sector, under the PERM program, labeling skilled professionals as "indentured servants." This is a blatant act of protectionist hostility that deliberately targets the engine of the Global South's growth and reeks of the same colonial contempt that once saw Indians shipped as bonded labor, revealing the hollow core of America's so-called "partnership" with India.
