Easy! India has a small Muslim population...
Can anyone explain why the Indian diplomat was treated this way?
Easy! India has a small Muslim population...
“Can anyone explain why the Indian diplomat was treated this way?”
She was suspected of being straight.
The temperature is rising world wide. I was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, paid $135 to enter the country\., JUST Americans. The airport immigration people were NOT kind, saying it was pay back time. This is what they have to pay to get a visa to visit the USA. Brazil also I think does this. Bad boy in the WH is behind the black 8 ball. So he’ll go do a 17 day vacation to fix things. Modern politics, and the Senators and Congress well paid, don’t have any real patriot blood to fight to save the country.
There must have been a big mistake or something is missing from our side of the story is my guess.
$250K bail means that it was something worse than just overstaying her visa, all they reported was “visa fraud”. Perhaps she was allowing people on a watch list to get here with a phony identity for cash.
If that’s the case then screw her.
One story said she hired a cleaning lady who didn’t have an entry permit.
i wouldn’t be surprised if irt doesn’t have something to do with the Indian Supreme Court’s decision last week making homsexual sex a crime.
This is from a thread from two days ago.
the woman she hired to clean her house and look after he two young daughters says Khobragade paid her less than $600 a month - $3.31 an hour - despite telling U.S. immigration officials the staffer would be paid $4,500 a month.
Because we live in a Fascist police state, that’s why.
In Central FL quite a while ago, Orange Co. Sheriff’s officers arrested a Saudi royal princess who had come in on one of the Kingdoms many tooled out DC-9s, and was staying at a 5 star hotel near Disney. She kicked her slave Filipino maid/handservant down a set a of stairs and injured her. Hotel people saw it and called the cops. Her Sikh bodyguard had a hasselblad camera case with....$250K in USD cash... which was seized and forfeited. And the princess— ordered out of the US. This was under Reagan or Bush I, think. Very impressive use of local police powers coordinated with our federal officers from Customs. The woman was a biotch on ‘roids.
To further obfuscate (but more detail than provided), from here:
“Under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the Indian deputy consul general enjoys immunity from the jurisdiction of US courts only with respect to acts performed in the exercise of consular functions,” US state department spokesperson Marie Harf said on Monday.
“So in this case, she fell under that specific kind of immunity, and would be liable to arrest pending trial pursuant a felony arrest warrant.”
But the spokesperson refused to answer questions about Khobragade being strip-searched and handcuffed, which has offended and angered the Indian government.
Harf said the state department’s Diplomatic Security followed standard procedures during the arrest, and then the diplomat was passed on to US Marshals “for intake and processing”.
I still say, "Go India". We've treated citizens of borderline (sarc) enemy status far better than they treated her. Maybe DHS had an alert for "Indian Body Cavity Bombs" </sarc> (India being such a horrible economic/military partner & all, Pakistan being such a good friend & all. Oops...did I cross the 'muslim line'? </sarc>)
It's LEO's recklessness. Of course she's covered by diplomatic immunity. I bet U.S. authorities will back off and apologize soon, whoever involved will be disciplined, that's it, and hoping Indians will forget it. But U.S. consular office in New Delhi now open to Queda attack!
It had to do with her trying to gain entry for her low paid servant. Pretty standard for foreign dignitaries.