Indians Support US President raise slogans 'Trump loves India'

Washington Feb 5 :In a suprise move to show support for US President Trump at least 800 Indian-Americans participated in a march outside the White House on Saturday raising slogans in support of U.S. President's proposal to implement a 'merit-based' immigration system in the country and demanding discontinuation of country quotas for Green Card approvals.

People have said that "Indian applicants are at a disadvantage under the current approval system that limits the number of Green Cards issued to individual countries at 9,800, while more than 50,000 of them newly join the queue each year."

Many Indians have raised the slogans such as 'Trump loves Hindus', 'Trump loves India, 'Trump bringing Ram Rajya. Locals have said that those who participated in the marchers were all Indian technology workers who had come from all over the U.S. — California, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Illinois and New York.

Indians hoped that new system proposed by Trump would reduce the backlog that is generated under current green card system.