‘If H-1Bs are so great...’: MAGA commentator questions why Indians come to US instead of making their country ‘America No. 2’

Conservative commentator Steven Crowder stirred a row during a conversation about H-1B visas when he said: If India has so many bright and talented people, why do they come to the United States instead of making India an “America No. 2.” In a talk with a young man, Crowder said that if H-1B visas are so great, then why does “India still look like India?” The youth asked, “Look like India? What do you mean?” Crowder then described India in a sly way, calling it a poor and backwards country where people lack basic healthcare and necessities, where diseases still exist that developed nations eradicated, and where hundredes and thousands die from "snake bites." He then said, “That’s not a joke. It’s a third world country.” Steven admitted that Indians work in large numbers