Employment agencies and nine individuals charged with hiring illegal aliens

Ice! Ice Baby! ^

[Shuttle Shucker]

The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers
inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists'
abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees.
Here's an interesting new thread on new legal reform progress that finally
emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts

We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the
neighborly thing to do?

[Calpernia]

This thread is not about Mexico.

[HiJinx]

Smuggling Ring Bust Ping!

Asians and Arabs. What a combo...

[kittymyrib]

Heard on Fox that some of the illegals paid up $25,000-$35,000 to enter the US. Does this sound like a poor person coming to wash dishes? It sounds like some Al Queda money to me, being used to place terrorists where they want them for the next attack on this country, though of course, the Fox piece said the government didn't think this had anything to do with terrorists. Will any of us be shocked when it becomes obvious that they have lied to us?

[khnyny]

Thanks for the info.

[Calpernia]

The illegals coming in from the human smuggling are not Al Qaeda. They are brought in for slave labor.

[Tammy8]

You are right.

It seems to me if terrorists come here illegally all they have to do is contact one of these groups that support/hire/assist illegals and the group will do the rest for them. False documents and a job = pretty good cover, through little or no effort on the part of the terrorists.

[Lurker]

They usually don't pay all that cash up front. They'll put a couple of grand as a 'down payment' and then get smuggled in.

Once they're here they're basically sold as sweatshop labor until the 'debt' is paid off. Usually there's a small 'finance charge' that would make a mafia juice loan enforcer blush.

Then there's always the ones who are lied to about work in a 'garment factory' and who are instead sold into brothels. Of course there's also a hefty charge for the 'room and board' in addition to the money owed.

The result is that these people are kept as virtual chattel slaves in the sex business or in the sweatshops.

Either way this 'Sister Ping' person is no better than the slave traders of the 17th and 18th centuries. She deserves a fair trial and then the business end of a stout piece of hempen rope.

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