South Florida has a substantial Indian-American community. My niece married a third-generation Indian who is my ophthalmologist (and who removed my cataracts.)
There is no confusion among locals: South Florida has no significant number of H-1B workers.
This councilman is a pig.
My neighborhood is now 70-80% Indian, and our schools are 60+%. Indian. Valley Ranch and Frisco seem to be desired destinations for Indians. The main issue I have with them seems to be their votes for Democrats. They don’t bother me, as I proudly present myself as a veteran and attend Veterans Day assemblies at the local schools.
The councilman, pig or not, was talking about Indians as in citizens of India. The author kept conflating his mention of ‘Indians’ with Indian Americans. My gripe was with the author that didn’t know the difference.
Your optho was an h-1b import.