The Washington Post, July 7th, 2002
IN THE FIGHT to protect immigrant domestic workers from exploitation and abuse, there have been some victories, such as the jail sentence handed down to a Gaithersburg man whose family kept a Brazilian woman as a live-in slave for nearly 20 years. There have been changes in law and policy aimed at giving immigrants more leverage to protect themselves. Then comes a story like that of the Saudi princess and her maid, and the message goes out that for the powerless, not enough has really changed. The princess, a wealthy niece of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, was accused in December of pushing her mai...
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