There’s one group of minority immigrants in the U.S. that is surprisingly pro-Trump

Yet despite his anti-immigrant rhetoric, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is seeing a surprising amount of support among Indian-Americans, many of whom are immigrants or children of immigrants.

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In addition to Indian-Americans for Trump, the more religiously-focused group, Hindus for Trump, meets occasionally in Brooklyn—the group has an image of Trump sitting cross-legged on a lotus flower on its Facebook page. In July, the also religious Republican Hindu Coalition, which formed last year to increase the clout of Hindus in American politics, officially threw its weight behind Trump. The group’s co-founder, Shalabh Kumar, and his wife donated nearly $900,000 to the Trump Victory Fund because they liked the businessman’s “tough words for Pakistan” and his views on “Muslim profiling,” according to The Hill.

Indian-Americans are one of the wealthiest, most educated, and fastest-growing immigrant groups in the country, according to the Center for American Progress. Their ranks include Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains, as well as Muslims and Christians. And their vote is becoming increasingly important. Most polls lump the nearly three million Indian-Americans together with a broad, diverse grouping of Asian-Americans, so it’s hard to break out their voting clout. But Neil Malhotra, professor of political economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, estimates that by 2065, Asian-Americans could surpass African-Americans as a share of the electorate.

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