MAGA world goes after Indian Americans again, attacking a key Trump voting bloc Some of the president’s loyalists are turning their xenophobia on Indians in the U.S. amid the president’s falling-out with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sept. 4, 2025, 4:22 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
Indians in the U.S. are in the crosshairs of Trump-loving extremists yet again amid the president’s falling-out with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Indian Americans were key to Donald Trump’s electoral victory last year , but the relationship between some conservative Indian Americans and MAGA proved tenuous earlier this year as extremists fueled a backlash over Indian immigrants coming to the U.S. on H-1B visas.
My colleague Steve Benen recently covered how Trump’s haphazard tariff war (which a