Saturday night, the University of Texas released a video after its astounding win against Ohio State that triggered a civil war between conservatives and Republicans. One person, in particular, Bo French, a man running for the position of Texas Railroad Commisioner, screenshot the moment the camera swiveled around to show the students reacting to the win.
From the position the camera was at, the crowd was almost nothing but Indians.
"Like body-cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners. It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine," French posted with the picture.
Like body-cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners. It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine. pic.twitter.com/Fz6t0tojdg
— Bo French (@bofrench) September 13, 2026
I won't go over the replies, because they are innumerable, but I can tell you that this singular post caused bedlam on the right, with Republicans and Conservatives, and even a few Libertarians, going at each other's throats, with the core issue being what's actually the true position on immigration by Republicans.
I think, as is the way it is on social media, everyone was talking past each other and retreating to their furthest corners. As I watched the back-and-forth, everyone became angry, insulting memes were thrown around, and denouncements were made. The interesting thing was, many of Texas's elected Republicans were pretty gung-ho about denouncing French, and the idea that this moment at the game was anything but healthy, and not at all a sign of being overrun with Indians or even a lack of assimilation.
Numbers were thrown around, and points were made by both sides, but despite all the debate, neither side seems to understand the other. It doesn't help that both sides were telling each other to leave Texas permanently.
If you look at a crowd of diverse Texas students celebrating together and see a “problem,” the problem isn’t the students.
— Pooja Sethi (@PoojaforTexas) September 13, 2026
This is what Texas looks like. And if you don’t like it, you can leave. https://t.co/ZWDjVtp0Pi
But stopping to think about this for a minute, I can understand both sides.
Republicans and Conservatives spend a lot of time refining what is and isn't considered good immigration. That's become one of the core focuses during the Trump administration. Donald Trump was elected, in part, to get this immigration situation under control, and I don't just mean the illegal immigration. It was clear we had sloppy laws that allowed in literal terrorists and gang members who had no business stepping foot on American soil.
What we, as a majority on the right, seem to believe in is that a person, or family, can immigrate here if they love America and want to become American. They, of course, can never just leave their culture behind. Food, language, customs — it all comes with them, but the idea is that America was always first in their heart before any other country. If there were customs or traditions in that country that did not meld with American customs or traditions, they had to go. Refusal to leave them behind means you have to go, too.
Moreover, these immigrants would experience no preferential treatment, get no benefits that Americans didn't, and would be equal to us when it came to everything from getting jobs to being accepted into colleges.
That was the virtue of immigration we all (mostly) get behind, and it's a mentality that we believe has made America the strong melting pot that it is.
But what the people who tend to side with French are saying is that this is not at all what's happening, and they're right, too.
This isn't natural immigration happening here. It's happening at such a rapid pace that the percentage of Indians arriving in places like North Texas is rising by leaps and bounds, and as it does, the culture shifts dramatically.
Savanah Hernandez released a report about this influx of Indians immigrating here so quickly that many have stopped calling it immigration and started defining it as "invasion." As you can see in the video, they aren't leaving behind some of the beliefs that don't fit with America's culture.
Bringing this back to remind y’all that the Indian population in Texas is so huge that 70-foot-tall Indian temples can be found in the middle of Texas neighborhoods
— Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) September 14, 2026
And ranchers now rent out cows to Indian families who use them to “bless” their homes: pic.twitter.com/Va6favu9a2
What's being missed by many of the "all legal immigration is good" folks is that if you import that many people from a singular location and even show them some preference for jobs and education, it does the exact opposite of encouraging assimilation. In fact, as you can see in the photo posted by French, these Indians might be wearing cowboy hats and UT shirts, but they're all sitting together as a mass. That is the opposite of assimilation.
Not that I blame the Indians for doing so. People of a common background and culture are naturally going to gravitate to one another, but the issue here isn't that they're doing that; the issue is that we have so many of them who have come in so quickly that this population has created a cultural shift that has made Texas look like something other than Texas.
And I don't just mean Indians, either. People from Islamic countries have flooded into Texas as well, to a point where Republican politicians have recently had to effectively declare Sharia law against the law to practice.
I can speak from personal experience here. I live in what looks like "Little India," just outside of Dallas in one of its suburbs. The number of Indians who live in this area has dramatically shifted the culture. Restaurants enjoyed by Texans left and right have closed down, only to be replaced by Indian restaurants. Our schools and daycares have so many Indian students and teachers that my son was actually a minority in his class until we moved him to a different school. Anywhere I go in my own town, the likelihood of my being the minority is high because of the number of Indians and Muslims.
Again — and before anyone can accuse me of racism — the race isn't the issue; it's the cultural saturation that comes with foreign saturation.
It's happening too quickly. The mass of people being imported from these locations is not allowing for assimilation because even the immigrants are too saturated in their own culture to become fully American. They're attempting to work themselves into our political system to change it to their liking, they're attempting to teach children the things they believe in, and if it wasn't for the HEB that was just built nearby, you wouldn't know you were in Texas at all in my neck of the woods.
It's a cultural takeover, and this is what people are angry about. You cannot expect the natives to be okay with this and call them racist for being furious as they watch their cities and towns become an outpost for another land. You cannot call them racist for seeing an immigration issue, even if legal, and pointing it out, because they are the ones being affected by it directly.
