‘My grandpa’s name was Dan Singh’: Fox anchor Alec Nolan hits back at DHS post targeting ‘Mr Singh’

Alec Nolan (left) and Ranjeev Puri (right) speak out about their 'Singh' background, condemning the social media post of the DHS. When Fox 7 Austin anchor Alec Nolan saw a US Department of Homeland Security post featuring a South Asian-looking truck driver identified only as “Mr Singh”, he did not see just another immigration meme. He saw his own family and condemned it.“My grandpa’s name was Dan Singh,” Nolan said in response to the controversial DHS post, recalling how his great-grandfather, Katha Singh, came to the US from India in search of a better life. Katha Singh eventually became a raisin farmer in California, while Nolan’s grandfather went on to work as a truck driver.Nolan called the DHS post “racist and demeaning to anyone with the last name Singh”.The post, shared by the official DHS account on X, used an AI-generated, “Transformers”-style poster as part of the Trump administration’s campaign encouraging undocumented immigrants to leave the US voluntarily.The poster was titled “Transformers: Age of Deportations” and showed a giant Transformer confronting a brown-skinned, bearded man wearing a head covering. Its message read: “America for Americans. Get off our roads; y...