Anti-Indian rhetoric grips Frisco council meetings as speaker rule change stalls

A recurring claim at council meetings has been that Indian Americans are arriving in Frisco through fraudulent use of the H-1B visa.

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The Frisco City Council in Texas approved new decorum rules but deferred a vote on shortening public speaker time at its April 7 meeting, the council’s procedural response to months of anti-Indian rhetoric that has dominated public comment and drawn hundreds of thousands of views on social media.

State of play

The updated decorum r…