IANR 2520 051725 Path to Citizenship with Ex Dir Zenobia Lai; SL Mayor Candidate William Ferguson; Buddha Institute by Piyush Gupta

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IANR 2520 051725 Line Up

4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest Host Sridhar Kotha in for Jawahar)

Here’s the guest line-up for Sat, May 17, 2025 from 4 to 6pm CST on Indo American News Radio, a production of Indo American News (www.IndoAmerican-News.com). We are on 98.7 FM and youcan also listen on the masalaradio app.

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4:20 pm With the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants and reports of harassment of Permanent Residents and even citizens re-entering the country, many long time residents who are eligible are considering becoming citizens. There were 818,000 permanent residents in 2024, and 360,000 are eligible. But the pathway toward citizenship is getting more expensive and difficult. Today, we are joined by Zenobia Lai, the Executive Director of Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative, to talk about the challenges to becoming a citizen.

4:50 pm In the City of Sugar Land elections on May 3, hopeful Mayoral candidate William Ferguson received 5,831 votes or 35.92% and is in a runoff with Carol McCutcheon who received 4,637 votes or 28.56%. Election day is June 7. Ferguson is a SL resident for 18 years, who has served since 2020 as council member At-Large Position 1. He joins us again to expand on his goals for the city and ambitions as the Mayor.

5:20 pm Piyush Gupta is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who retired in 2013 after a 35 year career, to start a second career by establishing The Buddha Institute to make a difference in the lives of poor Indians by leveraging the support of NRIs to address India’s poverty and unemployment by nurturing development entrepreneurs. He joins us today from his home in the Bay Area to explain how The Buddha Institute hopes to accomplish this.

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