Joe Biden will have a “high priority” US-India relationship, his campaign member said on Saturday adding if Biden elected as the President then he will have “no tolerance” for cross-border terrorism in Pakistan.
“Biden will deliver on his long-standing belief that India and the United States are natural partners, and a Biden Administration will place a high priority on continuing to strengthen the US-India relationship,” the campaign said as quoted saying by Times of India.
“No common global challenge can be solved without India and the United States working as responsible partners, Biden’s campaign said on Joe Biden’s agenda for the Indian American community,” it added.
On immigration, Biden will “preserve family unification as a core principle of our immigration system.”
“He will support first reforming the temporary visa system for high-skill, specialty jobs to protect wages and workers, then expanding the number of visas offered and eliminating the limits on employment-based green cards by country, which have kept so many Indian families in waiting for too long. Biden will restore and defend the naturalization process for green cardholders,” the document read.
“Biden will appoint leaders at the Department of Justice who will prioritize the prosecution of hate crimes, and he will order his Justice Department to focus additional resources to combat hate crimes — including religion-based hate crimes — and to confront white nationalist terrorism,” the policy document read.
“As the world’s oldest and largest democracies, the United States and India are bound together by our shared democratic values: fair and free elections, equality under the law, and the freedom of expression and religion. These core principles have endured throughout each of our nations’ histories and will continue to be the source of our strength in the future,” the document said.
Biden ensured that South Asian Americans are represented in his administration, and his Vice-Presidential nominee, Senator Kamala Harris, whose family emigrated from India to America to build a life in the United States, will help the making his campaign greatest of all time in American history.
“Our government will reflect the diversity of the United States, and Indian American voices will be included in shaping the policies that impact their communities. From fighting COVID-19 to building our economy back better to reforming our system of immigration, a Biden-Harris Administration will be one that Indian-Americans can count on,” it said.
“In 2006, Biden announced his vision for the future of US-India relations: ‘My dream is that in 2020, the two closest nations in the world will be India and the United States’,” it said.
The Obama-Biden campaign emerged as the administration which has deepened collaboration between India and the United States on economic, regional, strategic, defense, and many other global challenges as well.
