It's becoming uncomfortably racist here in the Dallas suburbs.
Here are the facts:
- Indians are 2% of DFW and own 5.3% of its businesses
- DFW's Indian population more than doubled from 2000 to 2010 and is at 220,000 today.
- Asian Indians are the majority in many Frisco subdivisions, and Frisco is one of the wealthiest, fastest-growing suburbs in America.
- In Frisco, where Indians are the largest Asian group: Asian median household income is $190K, median home $642K, poverty 3.5%.
Name the DFW suburbs with the most Indian families: Frisco, Plano, Allen.
Now name the ones with the best schools and highest home appreciation. Same list.
They are literally providing more jobs and paying more in taxes per capita than the average American, and they are overwhelmingly here legally through the most vetted visa process we have.
This is what 'ruining the neighborhood' looks like apparently.
"They are the reason no one can afford homes here!"
The fix for expensive housing is building more houses, and nearly half of DFW construction workers are also immigrants.
The people getting blamed for the housing shortage are the ones framing the houses.
My wife and a friend recently hosted a nonprofit Children's Entrepreneurship Market. Guess who most of the winners were? Yep.
Isn't America supposed to be competitive? They make us better.
The H1B program has real abuses. Outsourcing firms gamed it for years. Fix the program, YES! Agreed! But the families at the mandir in Frisco aren't the program. They're the people the program was supposed to be for.
Mark me down as pro Indian.