I am from India but none of my staunch partners are Indian: Lawyer Rahul Reddy fights back against hate on social media
Immigration attorney Rahul Reddy said he keeps seeing claims on social media that Indians in the U.S. will only hire Indians and H-1B visas, and said he founded the law firm Reddy-Neumann Brown C, but none of the attorneys at his firm are Indian. The comments come as Texas whistleblower Sara Gonzales has been going after H-1B employers and knocking on the doors of Indian-American employers. Most of these are staffing firms hiring H-1Bs from India for other clients, so their registered offices often don’t have employees, but Gonzalez has cornered some employers in her YouTube videos and shown that these employers don’t have all the answers.Another piece of news that incited the “Indians only hire Indians” rhetoric on social media was that Chinese-American assistant professor Dr. Sean Wangm sued Texas Southern Methodist University, accusing department chair Dr. Hemang Desai of favoring only Indians.“Social media vigilantes do a lot of homework before going after someone, which we like to do, but the way they predict it is like if there’s an Indian manager, he’s only going to hire Indians or H-1Bs. I started my law firm and none of my partners were Indian,” Reddy and Emily Neumann said in their weekly immigration update. Rahul Reddy founded Reddy Neumann Brown PC in 1997. The current partners of the company are Krystal Alanis, Rebecca Chen, Emilu Neumann, Steven Brown, Ryan WilckNeumann said there is indeed fraud in the H-1B program, just like every other government program, but that doesn’t mean the entire process is bad and everyone involved is a bad person.“The U.S. government claims that overall STEM skills are low, and they strongly encourage U.S. citizens to study for STEM degrees. The demand is high, but companies can’t find enough U.S. citizens in STEM. But the portrayal of H-1B on social media is wrong, and we want to correct that,” Reddy said.
