This is pretty incredible. India believes displacing American workers with imported Indian ones is somehow a trade issue. Slave trade maybe.

According to AFP, India is thinking of challenging the fact a nation gets to control it's own immigration policy, along with the very notion that somehow giving U.S. jobs away to foreign nations, is something the WTO would rule against the United States on.

India said Tuesday it may take the United States to the World Trade Organisation over a "protectionist" US move to hike work visa fees that will hit the country's flagship outsourcing sector.

The new law earmarks funds from the visa fee hike to pay for the US government's plans to boost security along its border with Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

India "cannot keep quiet" on an issue that hurts its commercial interests, Rahul Khullar, the top bureaucrat in the commerce ministry, said in New Delhi.

The visa fee hike "is WTO incompatible," Khullar said, adding the government was now deciding its "next course of action" which could include challenging the US legislation before the World Trade Organisation.

The 600-million-dollar measure, signed into law last Friday by US President Barack Obama, will nearly double visa fees for some Indian information technology workers entering the United States.

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), which represents India's top software exporters, has said the measure will boost annual US visa costs for the sector by 200-250 million dollars annually.

The US legislation affects those skilled workers brought in by companies whose employees are more than 50 percent foreign, a move that largely affects India's IT and outsourcing industries.

If the WTO ruled against the U.S. on this, America should immediately withdraw from the WTO for it's pure nonsense.

I think a nation is simply being responsible trying to make sure their citizens are hired for jobs in their own country.