Invoking the modern version of the 1818 Slave Trade Act and the 1874 Padrone Statute, Munawar Ali claims he was forced into several months of involuntary servitude providing housekeeping services at Sohail Khan’s residence in Illinois because of Khan’s alleged threats to call immigration authorities and have him deported back to Pakistan.Federal law recognizes that involuntary servitude can be caused by violence, threats of violence and “the abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process.”Khan …