Kashyap “Kash” Patel is the son of Indian immigrants. His
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parents, of Gujarati ancestry, moved to the US in the 1970s after his father, Pramod, fled the oppressive regime of Idi Amin in Uganda. Pramod became a financial officer for an aviation company.
Patel writes in his book: “Dreams of the sky-high salary at the prestige law firms never materialized,” because “nobody would hire me”. Eventually he took a job as a local public defender in Miami-Dade county, Florida, followed by work as a federal public defender in the southern district of Florida
Patel attended Garden City High School and his senior-year quote was "Racism is man's gravest threat—the maximum of hatred for a minimum reason", by Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel