Modi of India to visit us and meet Trump next week

The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will visit the United States next week and will meet with President Donald Trump, says the White House.

Other reports say that Modi will attend a dinner organized by the president of the United States on the two -day trip. The dates of the official work visit have not yet been announced.

Modi will be among the first foreign leaders to meet with Trump in the White House during his second term. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently in Washington and Japan Prime Minister, Shigeru ishiba, will be presented this week.

Modi and Trump shared warm relationships during the first mandate of the president of the United States. Last week they held A “productive” phone call and discussed illegal immigration, security and commercial ties, said the White House.

Analysts say it will be interesting to see if the Bonhomie between the two men will help overcome concerns about trade and immigration.

Trump called Modi a “great leader” last year, but also accused India of charging excessive rates.

The confirmation of the visit of the Indian leader to Washington came shortly after an US. military flight deporting some 100 Indian nationals landed in the state of Punjab.

It is said that all those on board entered the US illegally or exceeded their visas.

During the call last week, Trump said he was sure that India “would do the right thing” when it comes to illegal immigration.

He has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreign citizens a key policy. Previously, Bloomberg reported that 18,000 undocumented Indian migrants who live illegally in the United States so far had been identified, but it is likely that the real number is greater.

According to the PEW Research Center, it is estimated that 725,000 undocumented Indian immigrants in the United States last year.

Until now, India has escaped the threat of tariffs on its exports to the United States.

However, in the past, Trump called India a “tariff king” and a “great abuse” of commercial ties and threatened reciprocal action if Delhi did not reduce taxes on US imports.

The recent budget of India saw duties cut into a variety of goods, including high -end motorcycles such as the iconic Harley Davidson.

The Secretary of Finance of India told local media that it was a sign that the country “was not a tariff king.”

Last week, the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the two countries were working to further deepen their bilateral relations.

Foreign Minister Jaishankar represented India at Trump’s opening ceremony and held conversations with his American counterpart Marco Rubio while he was in Washington.

In November, after Trump’s electoral victory, Jaishankar said the country was not nervous about working with the president of the United States.