Vance meeting Indian-origin venture capitalist angers MAGA votaries

Motwani, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with investments in over 100 tech startups, posted a photo with JD Vance and wrote that she raised the issue of immigration

• India Weekly
• 28 May, 2025

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By: India Weekly

WHILE Make America Great Again (MAGA) activists are deeply agitated with the recent sanctioning of over 120,000 H-1B visas by the Trump administration, the recent meeting of vice president JD Vance with an Indian-origin venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani has further fuelled their anger.

These visa are used by American tech companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers.

Motwani, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with investments in over 100 tech startups, posted a photo with JD Vance and wrote that she raised the issue of immigration.

“JD took endless questions from about a dozen of us around the dining table and answered them patiently. I had concerns about immigration policies, and wanted to be reassured that America will not lose highly gifted and talented immigrants from foreign countries — top brains of the world. He gets an A+” the venture capitalist wrote.

“Many of us on the table had been Democrats, just like him, for over 30 years. Our departure from the Democratic Party to the center right had many resonances,” Motwani said

The meeting happened when US tech workers complained that they are losing jobs because of the low-pay hiring that the companies make through the H-1B programs.

Motwani’s post on X drew some angry comments.

Let me get this straight, JD Vance just wined and dined with a BJP RSS agent of India to facilitate India’s national interests, we can kiss our economy goodbye. #H1B pic.twitter.com/qOTT3YRRIr

— MrsDoubtFire🇺🇲 🫏🇺🇦 ⬜ (@MrsDoubtFireSF) May 22, 2025

“Let me get this straight, JD Vance just wined and dined with a BJP RSS agent of India to facilitate India’s national interests, we can kiss our economy goodbye,” one user wrote.

“Nice! But we should scrap H-1Bs and help our young, enterprising youth first,” one commented on Asha Motwani’s photo.

“O gross we will not accept the endless stream of H1bs to continue. Why support layoffs for Americans?” another wrote.

While Vance has spoken out strongly against H-1B visas as a senate candidate in Ohio, as a venture capitalist some of the companies he had invested in have availed H-1B visas.

Around three dozen companies in which Vance-affiliated funds invested have applied for the visas, Axios reports.