Recently videos surfaced where Rahul Reddy, (from lawfirm Reddy and Neumann)  a Houston based Immigration lawyer is seen speaking at an event organized by ITServe. ITServe, is a consortium of small IT service providers. These folks have a vested interest in keeping technology workers tied to H1b visa. Employment Authorization Card (EAD) would give such technology workers the ability to move to new companies and new jobs. Overall, such mobility also help American workers, as it is well known in the industry that lack of job mobility results in wage suppression.


In the video, Rahul Reddy is seen rallying owners of these small IT Firms against a recent Obama Administration effort to relieve the decade+ long green card backlogs.  If you are familiar with Green Card backlogs, you know that people from nations with huge populations have a decade+ wait to get green card. Obama administration tried to ease the pain by providing I140 EAD to folks who have been maintaining legal status. However, this goes against the interest of groups like ITServe.

Clearly, the videos rattled this Reddy And Neumann lawfirm and the managers of these IT companies. They did two things to solve this nightmare:

1. They filed for copyright violations for every copy of the video that exists.
2. Filed a one sided response on their facebook page and blog.

This two pronged approach help them to claim that the videos are taken out of context as they claim in their post responses here: https://www.facebook.com/Immigration.lawyer.dallas/posts/10154285319794804 and his partner Emily Neumann has response to the videos here: http://immigrationgirl.com/my-thoughts-on-immigration/

However, it is really hard to suppress previously uploaded youtube videos. A reasonable effort on Google or visit to immigration forums should be able to give you access to the videos and prove that these lawyers are lying.

Additionally, since both Rahul Reddy and Emily Neumann would not allow opposing arguments on their posts, I had to create this site to contest their claims about videos being out of context.

That said, Lobbying is definitely not illegal, but what he does is against the interest of legal immigrants. If you are hiring his firm, do note that you are contributing to efforts against legal immigration. If he tells you that the videos are out of context, ask him to provide the full videos and you can judge yourself.