Texas Republicans spent years courting Indian voters. Then came talk of the "Indian takeover."

[RandySF]

FRISCO — Burt Thakur is a U.S. citizen, a Navy veteran and a Trump supporter. Last year, he was elected to be a strong conservative voice on the City Council in the booming Dallas suburb of Frisco.

Lately, that job has required Thakur, who was born in New Delhi, to sit on the dais at Frisco City Hall and listen as a steady stream of people hurl racist invective at him and the entire Indian community. The speakers, many of whom don’t live in Frisco, rail against invaders, anchor babies, H-1B visa fraud and the “Indian takeover” of a city where nearly one in five residents are Indian.

Dylan Law, a McKinney resident who grew up in Frisco, told the council in early February that the city was falling to “unchosen, unwanted and uninvited forces.”

“Be America First,” Law implored the council, to audience cheers. “And to those who abuse the system my people built, go home before you are sent back.”



https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/12/texas-republicans-indian-americans-frisco-h1b-visas-immigration/

[UpInArms]

1. oh, this is rich

“We’ve got communities like Frisco that have been totally transformed, whether it’s Islamic immigration or immigration from anywhere else in Asia,” Rep. Brandon Gill, a Republican who represents parts of Frisco, told conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson. “If you go to some of these areas, you feel like you’re in a foreign country, and that’s a problem. America is for our people. We have a distinct heritage … and that’s something we as conservatives should seek to actually conserve.”

Gill and other members of Texas’ congressional delegation have called for a freeze on all legal immigration, citing concerns with the H-1B visa program, which is primarily used by high-skill Indian immigrants. Gov. Greg Abbott, following Trump’s lead, restricted H-1B visas for state workers, a move he promoted on social media to push back against complaints about H-1B visas in Texas.

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Gill is married to the daughter of right-wing commentator and staunch Trump defender Dinesh D’Souza, who is Indian. In October, when D’Souza attracted a flurry of anti-Indian hate on a social media post supporting the president, he said he’d never encountered this type of rhetoric over his 40-year career.

“The Right never used to talk like this,” he said on social media. “So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation? It’s a question worth thinking about.”

[tanyev]

2. LOL, "So who on our side has legitimized this type of vile degradation?"

Nearly every person you’ve ever worked with in the GOP, Dinesh. But they used to wait until you left the room to say it. Now Trump has set them free to no longer care.

[SSJVegeta]

3. Texas is not gonna be good for the GOP