The USG’s unconscionable behavior in the Khobragade case (compounded by 24/7 propaganda on behalf of the despicable Bharara) continues, but some voices of sanity still exist.

Here’s a good piece in the Asian age:

“The concern for the poor that the Americans, and some Indians with colonised minds, are displaying seems to spring from guilt. It is visible in the children of wealthy elites who want to expiate their guilt with lip service to equality, while having benefited all their lives from the systemic inequalities that their ancestors bequeathed to the world, and them. The spectacle of “lords” and Brahmin men with American accents claiming to represent subaltern positions, while Dalit mobs of the Republican Party of India in Mumbai raged against the stance they supported, was ridiculous.
If you really want poor people from India or anywhere to earn the fancy wages of Sangeeta, the maid ($4,500 is `2,79,000), then ask for America to open its doors and hearts wide to immigrants from all classes of society. At present, it only welcomes investors with more than $1 million to invest in the US, those with “superior specialist skills”, and similar. The chances of Sangeeta ever getting a visa by herself to even set foot in America would be negligible.
People of her class see the real face of American immigration policy towards poor people when they try to emigrate. They often migrate via Mexico, paying enormous sums to human smugglers in the hopes of better lives in the US. They are greeted with fences 21 feet high, guard dogs, and heavily armed border patrols.
Why not change the immigration laws so that women like Sangeeta can migrate without having to implicate their employers, perhaps falsely, in order to obtain visas for themselves and their families as victims of human trafficking?
Obviously, that will never happen.”