Days after an India engineer based in the US, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, succumbed to his injuries after he was fatally shot in an incident of racism, an anti-immigration website has surfaced in Ohio, putting the Indian community to distress. Indians have been bearing the brunt of hate crimes in the recent days, since the election of Donald Trump into US presidency.
The website which is called SaveAmericanITJobs.com put up a post on the Indians living in Ohio, describing how much wealth they are amassing in the US, after having displaced the local Americans their jobs. The post is replete with videos and photos which have been shot surreptitiously.
Read the post below:
According to Buzzfeed, the website is run by a 66-year-old programmer from Virginia who goes by the name of Steve Pushnor. He shot footage of unsuspecting children at the park with their parents, claiming they have taken away American’s jobs.
A video posted on YouTube on August 2016 by the same man has garnered over one lakh views.
According to Buzzfeed, the website is run by a 66-year-old programmer from Virginia who goes by the name of Steve Pushnor.
From discreetly shooting women and children at the park, to cars and houses, the post, Pushnor has stalked members of the Indian community and denigrate them in an obvious act of racism.
Mourning the displacement of “Normal Rockwell white people”, Pushnor wrote:
What was once a park for the community has been taken over by the guest workers now turned VISA holders in possession of many $$$, I know of the IT layoffs in the area over the years and have observed the Indian moving into the neighbourhood slowly over the years, but this year was different.
Indian Resident House is devoid of flowers and shrubs and brings the classy neighbourhood down to a lower caste.
Speaking to Buzzfeed News, Pushnor said:
What we’re trying to point out is people in Ohio, IT workers and other professional people, have lost their jobs to foreign guest workers. That’s what our point is.
Indians have been left horrified after the post was published.
Deep Rai, a Sikh man, was shot at in Kent on Sunday, days after alleged hate crimes claimed the lives of Indian-origin convenience store owner Harnish Patel and Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
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