Indian-origin venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani claimed she is behind President Donald Trump’s changed stance on H-1B, the visa program that allows US tech companies to hire skilled workers from foreign countries, including India. Motwani, who is also a donor to the Republican Party, said that she spoke with both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on the value of bringing in the top talent from India into the US. “I have spoken to both JD Vance and President Trump about the fact that people like #RajeevMotwani and i would not have come easily into the US if the current H1B drama had been playing out in the 1980s.,” Motwani posted on X. Her husband Rajeev Motwani was an Indian-American professor of computer science at Stanford University.
‘I wish there were more people doing this’
Asha Motwani said the Trump-Vance administration is open to good ideas but not enough HNI (high net worth individuals) Indian-Americans are pursuing the Indian-American issue. “I spent the weekend in Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and got unusual access to the president with very little effort. I wish there were more people doing this alongside me. Engaging with the current administration in Washington DC is easy and very, very doable. In fact, it is welcomed by everybody,” she wrote.“Almost one year into batting for India in Washington DC, I am truly shocked that there is not a single other HNI Indian American helping India in DC,” Motwani said adding that Indian-American billionaires are only close to the Democrats and they are not doing any lobbying in the DC. “When I asked the usual Indian American billionaires why they are not helping our home country, most give the excuse that they know only the Democrats. This does not fly with me anymore. I have lost respect for some friends who on the pretext of “not liking Trump & Vance” are doing a diddley squat for India or US. It is in American geopolitical and economic interest that India is in the American pocket and not with anybody else. We in the diaspora can make this happen and we must put in our effort,” Motwani wrote.In his latest FOX interview, Trump said America needs certain types of talent as he was speaking on the H-1B issue. This sent shockwaves through the MAGA base as they claimed that Trump meant that American does not have enough good talent. The Donald Trump administration, however, clarified that they welcome foreigners to study, train and then to eventually go back to their own countries.
