The biggest slave trading and labor law abuse happen in the American Universities – alien teaching and research assistants work twenty hours a day for almost no pay
Harish Baliga
Dec. 20, 2008

Slavery never left America. It actually intensified under the rug. Lift the rug and you can see the American Universities. In the schools of engineering and science you can see those Chinese, Indian, and East European faces, some struggling with their English but all working twenty hours a day with little pay. Professors receive research grants from American Government Agencies including Department of Defense. These Agencies seldom check the labor law abuse by the schools, colleges, and universities.

When Research Assistant (RA) or a Teaching Assistant (TA) is hired, he or she is supposed to work for twenty hours a week and study nine credits of graduate level courses per semester. Most of these aliens are made to work far more than twenty hours (sometime as much as sixty hours) and paid far less than minimum wages. It is a violation of labor laws, violation of moral ethics and above all a form of slavery allowed by the American Universities in the name of education and research.

The foreign students are eager to come to US and receive a Masters or Ph.D Degree from a US University. The immigration laws are skewed in such a way that after receiving Ph.D in Engineering or Science, it is very easy to obtain an employment based green card or permanent residency in the United States. The students know that and the Professors know that. Professors say, go through the hell of five years to obtain your ‘Nirvana.’ So getting treated as slave for five years gets you a green card and a Ph.D. Grades are manipulated so that the transcripts of these modern days slaves look good. You try to protest, your grade goes down the hill, and your American dream comes to an end.

What is really interesting is that some professors even tell their Research or Teaching Assistants that they are officially supposed to work twenty hours a day but must work far more to make these professors look good.

These departments specially engineering schools are also hotspots for ethnic discrimination. Iranian professors favor Iranians. Chinese prefers Chinese. Indian favor Indians. American professors do not have much scope to favor anyone. They use all. The Director of Graduate Studies is a very powerful position within the department. He or she determines the availability of funds for these TAs or GAs. You are gagged by these individuals keeping the alien students on their toe.

If you are a US Citizen, grown up, and hold a job, they hate you. They know their cat will be out of the bag and you can challenge them. They will do everything to stop you from getting a matriculated status. Government in United States does little to stop this abuse.

We all focus on illegal immigration, H1B visas, and so on. In reality, the real labor abuse and slave trading is in the Engineering and Science departments of American Universities. It is time for real change. Will Obama do something? Well that is a separate matter!

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