‘Every country in world has stupid people’: Rubio on racist remarks against Indians in U.S.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Sunday (May 24, 2026) described the United States arsenic a “welcoming country” and termed the racist comments made against Indians arsenic the actions of “stupid” people.

Addressing a associated property league with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar successful New Delhi, Mr. Rubio stated that helium takes specified comments precise seriously.

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On being asked astir racist remarks against Indians successful the U.S., helium responded: “I don’t cognize however to code that, but I’ll instrumentality that precise earnestly astir the comments. Look, I’m definite that determination are radical who person made comments online and different places due to the fact that each state successful the satellite has anserine people. I’m definite determination are anserine radical here. There are anserine radical successful the United States who marque dumb comments each the time.”

“I don’t cognize what other to archer you different than that the United States is simply a precise welcoming country. Our federation has been enriched by radical who travel to our country, person travel from each implicit the world, person go Americans, person assimilated into our mode of beingness and person contributed greatly. So, that’s each I tin remark connected that successful respect to your point,” helium added.

Highlighting the publication of the Indian assemblage successful the U.S. economy, Mr. Rubio said: “Over 20 cardinal dollars person been invested successful the U.S. system by Indian companies. We privation that fig to proceed to increase, and obviously, the expertise arsenic good that they’ve provided to our system has been very, precise valuable.”

Modernisation of U.S. migration strategy ‘not India-specific’

Mr. Rubio besides stated that the U.S. is modernising its migration strategy and changes successful migration argumentation were applied crossed the satellite and “not India-specific.”

On concerns astir the caller changes successful J1 visa, F1, H-1B visa and his connection to Indians successful this regard, Mr. Rubio said: “The changes that are happening now, oregon the modernisation of our migration strategy into the United States, is not focused, is not India-specific. It is global; it’s being applied crossed the world.”

“We’ve had a migratory situation successful the United States. This is not due to the fact that of India, but broadly, we had implicit 20 cardinal radical illegally participate the United States implicit the past fewer years, and we’ve had to code that challenge. In summation to that challenge, and I deliberation this is existent for India, this is existent for each state successful the world... Everything that you bash arsenic a state needs to beryllium successful your nationalist interest, and that includes your migration policy.”

He noted that migration has enriched the country, but stressed that the strategy indispensable beryllium adjusted with changing times. “The United States, I believe, is the astir welcoming state successful the satellite for immigration. Every azygous year, a cardinal radical astir go imperishable residents of the United States and lend greatly. My parents entered the United States arsenic imperishable residents successful 1956 from Cuba and truthful it’s a process that’s enriched us, but it has to beryllium a process that’s adjusted successful each epoch to the realities of the modern times successful which you live, and we are, and it’s agelong overdue,” helium added.

Mr. Rubio further stated that the strategy that volition beryllium implemented aft the process volition beryllium much businesslike and amended than the erstwhile system.

“The United States is presently undergoing a process of reforming the strategy by which we take however galore radical travel into our country, who comes in, erstwhile they travel in, etc. Anytime you undertake a reform, anytime you undertake a alteration successful the strategy by which you admit people, oregon frankly anytime you undertake a betterment successful immoderate system, not conscionable connected immigration, determination are going to be, there’s going to beryllium a play of modulation that’s going to create, you know, immoderate friction points and immoderate difficulties and truthful forth,” helium said.

“Ultimately, we deliberation that erstwhile this process is successful place, erstwhile this process has been modernised, and that’s truly what it is. We are modernising the U.S. migration strategy for the 21st period truthful that it is an migration strategy that’s not conscionable bully for America, but it’s besides bully for the radical that are coming,” helium added.

“So I conscionable don’t... what I privation to wide is that the changes, portion they whitethorn beryllium having a disproportionate interaction connected a spot similar India that provides truthful galore high-skilled workers to the U.S. economy, it is not a strategy that is targeted astatine India. It is 1 that’s being applied globally. But we’re successful a play of transition, and similar immoderate play of transition, there’s going to beryllium immoderate bumps connected that road. But we deliberation yet our destination is going to beryllium a amended system, a much businesslike system, 1 that works amended than the 1 that we had embraced antecedently and much sustainable by the way,” helium reiterated.