There are more people living in forced labor today than when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
--Tom Simon, FBI special agent in Honolulu, Hawaii
Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.
An indictment unsealed in Hawaii on Thursday accuses employees of a California-based company of luring about 400 people from Thailand with false promises of lucrative jobs. Many of the imported workers wound up laboring on farms under substandard conditions, had their passports confiscated, and were threatened with deportation.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/03/hawaii.human.trafficking/index.html?hpt=T2
I am amazed this is going on.
I'm amazed it was on CNN, but not surprised that it happened. I mean, c'mon, it's not as though there's anyone in America that wants to be paid to work on a farm. And who are we to question methods used to keep costs down, which in turn allows companies more money to provide better goods and services for a lower price thus allowing the commoooooooooh no.
I will meditate on this when I enjoy my next mixed-fruit cocktail.
I'm not amazed it happened. I'm amazed people did anything about it.
That said. I hope those fuckers get the book thrown at them.
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.
Slavery? Not us, nosirree!
Quote from: Nigel on September 04, 2010, 10:29:58 PM
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.
Slavery? Not us, nosirree!
Yeah, right.
Quote from: Charley Brown on September 05, 2010, 12:48:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 04, 2010, 10:29:58 PM
There's been stuff on NPR about this kind of thing for years; it gets ignored.
Slavery? Not us, nosirree!
Yeah, right.
Well, you know, people who "immigrate" here *involuntarily* don't count.
Besides, illegal immigrants got no rights.
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"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"
"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap"
Quote from: Lysergic on September 05, 2010, 01:31:54 AM
"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"
"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap hip hop"
Quote fix
Quote from: Lysergic on September 05, 2010, 01:31:54 AM
"Have you ever heard of the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?"
"No, sorry, I don't listen to rap"
I was going to lulz, then I just couldn't.