re: #105 Uncle Obdicut

She falsified her visa, too, and there’s probably some sort of semi-kidnapping charge, too. She’s facing possibly ten years.

Strip searches are incredibly common in the US, I have no idea why its use in this case is making people freak out. I agree that strip searches are overused, but that’s a symptom of our whole system and not a particularly egregious part of it, and I think people who lure people to the US with promises of fair wages, underpay them, and falsify paperwork to cover it up and attempt to use the police to retrieve them when they literally run away are more contemptible than the average drunk dude who gets into a fight or a guy who sells some weed and gets arrested.

It’s making government officials in India freak out for PR reasons. They don’t want to look like they are “capitulating to foreigners”. The two main parties of India are getting ready from an election next year, so just like the Democrats and Republicans here, the BJP and Congress parties are playing the “More Patriotic Than Thou Game”.