{"id":997054,"date":"2026-03-09T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997054"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:07:54","slug":"suspect-was-a-us-citizen-hindu-group-slams-texas-politicians-for-blaming-h-1b-visa-program-for-austin-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/09\/suspect-was-a-us-citizen-hindu-group-slams-texas-politicians-for-blaming-h-1b-visa-program-for-austin-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Suspect was a US citizen\u2019: Hindu group slams Texas politicians for blaming H-1B visa program for Austin shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians in Texas have faced criticism for linking the recent mass shooting in Austin to H-1B visa holders and immigrants, even though the suspect was a naturalised US citizen. The backlash has sparked debate about the politicisation of tragedies and the role of immigration in political discourse. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred on March 1 in downtown Austin, Texas, near a bar on West Sixth Street. Authorities said a gunman opened fire on people outside the venue, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others before he was shot dead by police. The suspect was identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a 53-year-old resident of Texas who had originally immigrated from Senegal but later became a US citizen in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians in Texas have faced criticism for linking the recent mass shooting in Austin to H-1B visa holders and immigrants, even though the suspect was a naturalised US citizen. The backlash has sparked debate about the politicisation of tragedies and the role of immigration in political discourse. The shooting occurred on March 1 in downtown Austin, Texas, near a bar on West Sixth Street. Authorities said a gunman opened fire on people outside the venue, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen others before he was shot dead by police. The suspect was identified as Ndiaga Diagne, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}