re: #40 Uncle Obdicut

Please read my lengthy post. The issue of forced servitude, of peonage, of human trafficking, is a hugely important one and the US government should be celebrated whenever it does something to work against it. There is actually a general crackdown going on right now over this unhappily common practice by foreign diplomats in the US; some towns near DC have passed statues recently given them more opportunity to verify the conditions of employment and shut down this sort of trafficking and servitude.

Serious charges, what’s the evidence for that in this case? The US complaint doesn’t allege anything like that. In fact, the complaint establishes that the maid signed the contract for the lower wage in India in front of witnesses, so this doesn’t look like a case of the maid getting trapped unaware once they reached the US and not being allowed to return to India.