Bengaluru CEO Faces MAGA Backlash Over H-1B Visa, US Citizenship Remarks

Bengaluru CEO Faces MAGA Backlash Over H-1B Visa: CEO of Bengaluru startup, largely financed by Grave Digger. The company, founded by CEO Deepak Shenoy, shared a post on H-1B visas on the day President Trump signed an executive order tackling it, questioning if those who entered the United States on an H-1B visa have birthright citizenship.

"An H1B is a temporary worker, right? So children of H1B parents born in the US don't get automatic US citizenship? Interesting," he wrote in a post.

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And MAGA supporters flooded the comments section as they targeted the CEO with suggestions like "deporting" Indians, and sealing up "loopholes" related to citizenship.

"As it should be — has been historically exploited by Indian and foreign parents," claimed one of them, while another wrote, "Yep. The loopholes are over. Get out."

"I think you’ll find temporary means you’re supposed to leave I would assume most people would take their children with them," said a third user.

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"What’s interesting? Baby of visitors needs to go home," read one comment.

The CEO laughed off the comments and explained that he was never an H-1B aspirant, that he is here in India and doesn't care about any changes that would come up in the laws of citizenship. "Funny so many Americans are telling me to go back. I live and work in India. I rejected the whole H1B to green card to citizenship rigmarole in 1997. (Kids are all born in India) But it's interesting because this have a child there had become a cultural thing," he said.

The CEO, however, added that the move would be a good thing for India. "It's probably a good thing for India also. Changes priorities," he said, adding that with this change "more work gets sent here" resulting in more prosperity for India.

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