as we have exhibited. This whole episode has shone a light on how disgusting our arrest laws are and the lack of respect for women in this country. Apparently, for most women in America it's a matter of "if it's not happening to them, it doesn't matter." Personally, I am not interested in what she was or wasn't paying her nanny as that is something agreed upon in her home country. The disgrace here is the physical treatment of Devyani Khobragade.

on Consular Relations, a law signed by the government of India. A woman who laughed in the face of the law as if she were above it. We prosecute people who commit felony crimes in this country. The Indian government had months to respond to this and all they did was issue an arrest warrant for the maid.
Perhaps you should admit you are an individual from India here to bash the United States. Apparently you don't think Indian government officials should have to obey our laws. Here in America WE HAVEN'T HAD SLAVES FOR OVER 100 YEARS, Inedia has them today. I guess we have a different idea of human rights here.
Good to see you're standing up for a criminal who only your country would hold in esteem. You should be ashamed of yourself.

My comment focused only on the treatment of Devyani Khobragade when she was arrested. This is disgusting, degrading, and is happening all over this country to women. Had she been a known terrorist with behavior that might have endangered those arresting her, you might be able to persuade me to listen to you. She was not. Picking up your children at school is not a crime.

Recently there was video on the news of women in Texas being strip-searched by the side of their cars after officers had pulled them over for speeding/or not on a freeway. There were several cases of this. Someone is getting some sort of cheap thrill from humiliating women in this country. And we thought Governor "Ultrasound" was a joke in Virginia...

You can make all the noise you want to about how these women might have been presumed to be carrying drugs or intending some other nefarious behavior, but this will only seal the case that they were being profiled.

And to my original point, this is not how the U.S. should treat diplomats and other representatives of foreign countries. Period.

Not a word of protest about this event in India which seems more and more a rape culture:


The 16-year-old was assaulted first on October 26 and then again the day after by a group of more than six men near her family's home in Madhyagram town, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Kolkata.

The second rape occurred as she was returning home after reporting the first attack at a police station.

She was then set on fire on December 23 and died in a state-run hospital late on New Year's Eve, police said.

"She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on December 23," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told AFP.

Police made their first arrests on Wednesday, two months after the initial crime, local police chief Rajiv Kumar told AFP.

Read more: http://www.jacarandafm.com/post/indian-teenager-gang-raped-and-burned-alive-police/

ethics to children? Is, for example, slavery OK with you as long as the enslavement was entered into in India?

....that the lack of respect for women and "if it's not happening to them...etc." should be said about the treatment of the MAID, not the "diplomat"!

What level of threshold would you consider it ok to arrest her? If she beat the nanny? Killed her?

How much would she have to do to be worthy of arrest/prosecution?

In most cases, they simply do not bring the case and allow the 3 year statute of limitations to run out.

If your boss ever steals from you, do not rely on the DoL. Pursue private cause of action.

immigrants who are abused. This brought forth the claim to the state dept. The state dept. sent a letter of inquiry to the Indian ambassador. the Indian ambassador claims to have written back explaining the circumstances. The government of India issued a warrant for the nannys arrest and within two days the nanny's family were flown to the United States due to what is claimed to be pressure and threats from the Indian government towards her family. Two days later the vice consul general was arrested.
The previous consul from India who didn't pay his worker was dealt with in civil court. He paid back wages and court costs. I think she also went through a private non-profit for help.

over the next five years.

Preet Bharara's wanting to prove how good an American boy he has become by giving Indians the third degree will mean American companies losing out on one of the most lucrative markets.

India already purchased $79 billion worth of Rafale fighter jets from France. If the same happens to artillery/tank/helicopter deals it will cost thousands of jobs.

The DoD is already pissed about it because a lack of foreign buyers increases the costs of domestic hardware.

There is no way this case is going anywhere. The state department will end up acceding to the immunity claim and the case will be dropped with prejudice. There is no precedent for keeping a white-collar case against an immune person "on ice."

The case may not go anywhere since the Indian government decided to protect the criminal they have working for them. I guess they think visa fraud is a joke. At least she won't be able to return once she leaves and we'll have one less human rights violator in this country. Good for us.

the system is based upon a presumption of innocence.

No fraud is proven -- it is simply alleged by a scheming maid who got what she wanted - a US green card for her and her family with free transportation and public assistance until they find a job. I don't know who would hire such disloyal and untrustworthy people - I certainly wouldn't.

If H1B visas are not given, US corporations will just move the jobs to India.

If I were you, I'd play the

don't get my sympathy.

...all I have to say about them is that an HB3 is supposed to require some skill not available from the existing population. Half of them were fired for incompetence before the first two months, and the rest were just an anchor to the continuation of the project.
Most had marginal English language skills almost impossible to communicate with or to understand. If this is what the HB3 program was supposed to do, it has sadly failed.

One thing you can say about Mexican illegals, is that at least, they know how to pick grapes.

Instead of just PNGing her and sending her home, we're going further anger India by trying to prosecute her.

So instead of working on increasing our ties to India, both as a major economic market and potentially an important military ally against an expansionistic China, we're going to get into diplomatic pissing contest. What idiots at the State Department signed off on this?

The "brink-of-WWIII" level of outrage from India was one of the most over-the-top things I'd seen in all of 2013...