Kamal Ghorui
Anti-Indian hate has been making rounds on online platforms and physical call-outs across America. However, there is one epicentre that has gained global spotlight for frequently highlighting the rhetoric, so much so that influencers and reporters from across the country have been travelling to northern Texas to report on the rising activity against Indian-Americans while also blaming them for ‘H-1B visa fraud’ and ‘takeovers’. Cities like Frisco and Plano that have a larger representation of the community have become grounds for hate speeches especially in city council meetings, whose videos later go viral on the internet. While the Indian community in the state has been largely silent in their reaction towards the propaganda against them, the youth have begun to speak out gradually. Recently, an Indian-origin resident who has been living in Texas for the past 22 years spoke against the narrative at a Frisco city council meeting on April 7, 2026. He said the narrative is driven by far-right influencers aiming for clout. Sahas Kaul, said he wanted to expose the people behind the rhetoric being aimed at the rising minority demographic in Frisco. He said the events happening in the meeting were not a “spontaneous outpouring of community concern” but a “coordinated campaign.” The speakers’ warning of the rising Indian presence in the city arrived with a “script” and speeches with the same language, rhetoric and talking points at city council meetings across the country, he added.“Wherever there is a visible South-Asian community, these groups show up. They are not concerned about Frisco, they are using Frisco,” he claimed. Kaul added that the speakers were aware that the city council can not deport people, change federal laws or alter the demographics and yet they appeared in the meetings for the ‘video’. “A city council meeting is the perfect backdrop for outrage content, looks official, looks like civic engagement and photographs well. You can say something inflammatory in front of a government seal, you film the reaction, you post it and by morning you have 50,000 views, a surge of new followers and donation links in your bio.”He blamed the content creators for using a public platform as a “film set,” with Indian neighbours as the “props.” He said the uncontested speeches go viral and cause immense damage to the people. “When someone stands at this podium and calls our Indian neighbours fraudsters and invaders, they are not speaking to the council, they are speaking to every Indian-American family watching this meeting on livestream,” he said. Kaul claimed that the hostility towards Indians was not new, as the same treatment was given to Jews at the turn of the 20th century, accused of corrupting American culture and taking jobs, against Italian and Irish immigrants who were called criminals and invaders and Japanese immigrants who lost everything they had built. “This trend has happened against every group that was visibly different, visibly successful and therefore visibly useful as a scapegoat for someone else’s agenda. The community being targeted was giving more than it was taking every single time,” he added. The young Indian-origin man claimed the content creators aimed at inciting fear and Frisco was “too smart and too good of a city to be used in this way,” while also asking for the people to protect the community “firmly.” Many in the comments commended Kaul for speaking out. “Finally someone like Sahas came up & spoke the right thing Hate for a specific ethnic group can never gain anything for anyone,” wrote one user. “Bravo! Whoever raised this young man should be proud,” added another. “Bro nailed that this is a coordinated psyop. He even called out the Twitter algorithm at the end. EXACTLY the speech that was needed,” one appreciated. Previously, another Indian-origin resident in Frisco, Texas, Neha Suratran spoke out against the rising anti-Indian rhetoric where activists chose to spread hate in city council meetings leading to the formation of strong opinions based on viral posts, regardless of facts. She said the Indian community in America had higher education, higher income and lower crime rate, yet it was vilified in the narrative of an ‘Indian takeover’.
