‘Your Grandfather Came From India’: Mehdi Hasan Hits Back At Nikki Haley’s Son Over Migration Post

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A heated exchange broke out on social media between Nalin Haley, son of Republican leader and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan over the issue of immigration in the United States. Nalin Haley had called for an end to “mass immigration" in a post on X (formerly Twitter), prompting Mehdi Hasan to remind him that his own grandfather migrated to the US from India in 1969.

Nalin Haley’s Post On ‘Mass Immigration’

In his post, Nalin Haley argued that mass immigration was contributing to overcrowding, economic instability and job insecurity in the United States while automation and artificial intelligence were already displacing workers. He wrote, “I don’t care where you are from. Even if it’s Canada, we have to stop mass migr