Protests have arisen in
India over an arrest in New York of an Indian diplomat for running an employment
scam claiming she was paying an imported worker thousands per month instead of
the actual $3.31 an hour. Makes one wonder how many U.N. diplomats are also
claiming to pay good wages to menial workers in order to pocket the difference
after a low actual wage is paid. Taxpayers in India should be glad that at least
one federal prosecutor was intolerant of a double standard for the rich. It
would have been good if contractors in Iraq being paid high wages by the U.S.
Government for workers actually paid minimum wage were held to the same standard
(see Halliburton's War).
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/17/21941866-arrest-search-of-female-diplomat-in-nyc-despicable-and-barbaric-indian-official-says?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1It is possible that the diplomat wasn't really scamming her own government as well as the U.S. Government claiming to pay 30,000 rupees per month ($4,500) to her maid. The Deputy Consul General of India didn't have diplomatic immunity because lying on immigration/visa applications to meet qualifications for domestic servants isn't an official part of the diplomacy business.
India has threatened retaliation as if they could find illegal aliens working for the U.S. State Department right away in time to make the news cycle. It was reported that there are some protests in India about the alleged strip search of the diplomat who they believed should have been treated better than other prisoners-especially because she is a woman and maybe rich. In India the police, it was reported, manhandle only poor women and defer to the delicate criminal sensitivities (that wasn't reported) of the rich.
Plainly the cost of making arrest being in the thousands of dollars, India should be expected to repay the U.S. taxpayers for the cost of the arrest and trial if convicted, and pledge never ever to underpay domestic staff again if they are working in New York.
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