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US Right wing believes that America has benefited from Indians
Demographic variation in perceptions of Indian Americans is relatively modest, and Republicans across the coalition generally see them as a positive force.
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Jeffin T. Kaleekal - Tue, 02, Dec 2025
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A report has come out from a national survey that examined today’s Republican Party and the coalition assembled by Donald Trump in 2024. The American right wing believes that Indians have assimilated with American culture and that America has benefitted from their arrival, as per a study by the Manhattan Institute. Nearly 3,000 voters, including black and Hispanic Republicans and 2024 Trump voters, were asked about a wide range of policy issues, as well as identity politics, immigration, conspiracy theories, assimilation, racism and other such issues.
52 percent of today’s Republican Party believes that Indian Americans have embraced American culture and contributed positively to society and only 29 percent believed that Indians have benefited from coming to the U.S. without doing enough to assimilate. However, the report contrasts Indian immigrants with Arab immigrants and those from Muslim-majority countries, showing that around 57 percent of Republicans believe that these communities have failed to assimilate with American culture.
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Demographic variation in perceptions of Indian Americans is relatively modest, and Republicans across the coalition generally see them as a positive force.
The study also examined views on legal immigration and found out that only one in ten of the current GOP believe that high-skilled legal immigration should be decreased. 47 percent believe that immigration numbers should be maintained at its current level and 35 percent said that it should be increased.
This, however, saw sharp demographic divides. It was found that men were more likely to support high-skilled immigration than women. Additionally, 52 percent of college graduates were in favour of increasing high-skilled immigration, compared to mere 28 percent of non-college graduates wanting an increase in high-skilled immigration.
Additionally, newer members of the GOP were found to be more supportive of high skilled immigration, with 47 percent of new entrant Republicans supporting increasing high-skilled immigration, versus just 31 percent of Core Republicans. This highlights that competition from H-1B visa holders and other skilled immigrants is not driving college-educated New Entrants toward restrictionism.
The findings also suggest that skepticism toward legal immigration is more concentrated among non-college graduate Republicans, some of whom may be responding to messaging about labor-market competition and wage pressures.
On illegal immigration, today’s Republican coalition is strikingly united and only 3 percent oppose deportations entirely. The real debate is not whether to deport, but how aggressively and by what rules. 37 percent want maximum deportations using whatever methods necessary, 34 percent strongly support deportations but demand careful execution and full due process to prevent mistakes and 22 percent favor prioritising serious criminals over families and otherwise law-abiding residents.
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