Former US Ambassador called Indians corrupt, said- fraud generally does not happen in America
Former US Ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands has created a major controversy as she said that Americans are superior to Indians because they believe in the Ten Commandments and are not deceitful. Speaking on President Donald Trump’s aide Steve Bannon’s show, Sands said Indians as a group earn almost twice the per capita income than US citizens, and that’s because Americans come from a high-faith society and Judeo-Christian background. The former ambassador said, “There is generally no fraud in America. People follow the Ten Commandments and we treat others as we would have them treat us.”Sands said that foreign cultures bring with them corruption. “These visa holders often have to pay 5 or 10% of their salary forever to the person who gets them the job. They cheat and have fake diplomas. They pay for them in India. Recently a ring was busted that sold hundreds of thousands of fake degrees, mostly in STEM,” Sands said, accusing India of giving medical degrees to students who had not even studied medicine.This comment sparked a major controversy as immigration policy expert Daniel Di Martino, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, condemned Sands’s sweeping statement on Indians.Martino posted, “Indian immigrants succeed because they are educated, work hard, and follow the law. These are conservative values. It is shameful for anyone to say that Indians succeed through fraud. This poor excuse is no better than the leftist that says white people oppress black people.”Martino argued that fraud does not work in the long run and that Silicon Valley is not being run by Indian fraud. “Fraud doesn’t work long term. Google, Apple and Silicon Valley aren’t hiring thousands of fraudsters, and neither are hospitals. In fact, Indians are discriminated against by the leftist DEI regime. So stop lying,” Martino said.Martino said, “There is some fraud in every group, in everything and everywhere. He (Sands) is wrong to claim that Indians (in America) are exceptionally cheaters or that they earn more because of it, that is extremely wrong. They earn more for the same reason that white people earn more than blacks on average.”
‘American companies should hire Americans’
This is not the first time that Sands has expressed such strong opinions. Recently, he wrote an op-ed for The Washington Times with Samantha Flanigan arguing that Disney, Meta, Amazon should only hire Americans. “One example is the widespread network of India-based fraud that has devalued American skilled STEM labor. This fraud has also come at the expense of vulnerable Indian workers who are trying to pursue the American dream through legitimate means. Last year, Forbes reported that H-1B work-arounds have been used to avoid paying fair wages to Indian workers. Other accounts suggest employer exploitation through visa controls, as visas are tied to an employer,” he wrote.