NRI PULSE STAFF REPORT
Austin, Texas, January 23, 2025: Aaron Reitz, a Republican candidate for Texas Attorney General, is drawing mounting criticism after posting inflammatory remarks about Indian immigrants on X, comments that have since been scrutinized alongside his campaign’s donor disclosures.
In a lengthy post responding to a question on the platform, Reitz claimed that Collin, Dallas, and Harris counties could soon be “renamed Calcutta, Delhi, & Hyderabad Counties,” alleging what he described as an “invasion of un-assimilated & un-assimilable Indians.” He blamed multinational corporations for relocating to Texas and exploiting the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. companies to employ skilled foreign workers in specialty occupations.
“Having contempt for native-born American workers, they then facilitate the H-1B scam for cheap labor,” Reitz wrote, adding that the system “must be rolled back.”
Reitz went on to say that if elected attorney general, he would work with the Trump administration to scrutinize employment-based immigration filings. “As AG, I’ll partner with the Trump Admin to re-open the books on all their ‘legal’ paperwork. Deport most. Assimilate the rest,” he wrote.
The post concluded with an attack on corporations he described as “gutless” and “treasonous,” and the assertion: “This is Texas, USA—not India or Pakistan.”
As the remarks circulated widely online, civil rights advocates, immigration attorneys, and members of the Indian American community condemned the language as racist and misleading, noting that Indian nationals form a significant portion of Texas’s legally employed high-skilled workforce in technology, healthcare, and engineering. The H-1B program is federally regulated and subject to extensive compliance requirements.
The controversy has also drawn renewed attention to Reitz’s campaign financing. According to The Dallas Morning News, Reitz accepted a nearly $100,000 campaign contribution from Dr. Anosh Ahmed, a Houston-based Pakistani-American physician who has since been federally indicted in connection with a large-scale fraud case. The newspaper reported that the donation was recorded in Reitz’s June 30, 2025 campaign finance filing, listing Ahmed’s residence as Dubai at the time of the contribution.
The donation has been cited by critics as a striking contrast to Reitz’s hardline rhetoric against Indian immigrants and his calls to aggressively re-examine “legal” immigration paperwork.
Collin, Dallas, & Harris Counties may soon be renamed Calcutta, Delhi, & Hyderabad Counties given how bad the invasion of un-assimilated & un-assimilable Indians has become.
— Aaron Reitz (@aaron_reitz) January 19, 2026
Globalist corporations move to Texas to exploit our favorable economic climate.
Having contempt for…
Indian Americans are among the fastest-growing ethnic communities in Texas, with large populations in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the Houston area. Community leaders have warned that rhetoric framing legal immigrants as “un-assimilable” risks fueling harassment and discrimination.
Cover photo credit: Aaron Reitz/X.
