U.S. Visa Law Fuels Domestic-Employee Abuse
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Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The recent arrest of Indian diplomatDevyani Khobragade has unleashed two kinds of outrage: protestsby Indians upset over her treatment by New York police, and,mostly outside of India, anger over Khobragade’s alleged crimeof forcing a domestic employee to work long hours for a fractionof the prevailing wage after having pledged in a visaapplication to follow U.S. labor and wage laws.
Less attention has been paid, however, to a more insidiousproblem: how international diplomatic practice, and U.S.immigration law, enable the abuse of domestic workers.