Posted on 07/02/2019 1:49:39 PM PDT by Kaslin
Last Tuesday, an Anne Arundel woman pleaded guilty to harboring an illegal immigrant and withholding wages upwards of $150,000 for housework from August 2006 until September 2014.
The Baltimore Sun reports that "Shingaidzo Nhekairo, 50, of Arnold pleaded guilty to 'unlawful employment of aliens' in U.S. District Court in Baltimore" on June 25.
Nhekairo forced the unidentified woman to watch after her children, prepare certain meals, and clean the household without pay.
How exactly did Nhekairo come in contact with the illegal immigrant? The Baltimore Sun's Phil Davis has the story:
According to a plea agreement, Nhekairo’s relative helped the immigrant — named only “E.M.” in the agreement — obtain a six-month tourist visa in August 2006 under the guise that “E.M.” would be traveling for a two-week vacation in Florida with her employer’s family.
The person was flown from Zimbabwe to JFK Airport in New York City then to Dulles Airport in Washington D.C., the agreement reads, where Nhekairo picked them up and drove both of them to her home in Hanover.
In addition to jail time, Nhekairo owes the woman, who she more or less kept as a slave for eight years, her full compensation.
Illegal immigrants being taken advantage of is nothing new in America. In 2016, an Indiana state legislator appropriately summarized why many individuals get trapped in this sort of abusive servitude:
"We’ve allowed a subculture which I consider modern day American slavery where we have people who come to this country to find a better life, they do so illegally, they’re paid below market wages, and they don’t live in freedom,” said Ind. Sen. Mike Delph, (R) Carmel. “They’re in constant fear for themselves and their family which invites exploitation. Not everybody exploits them, but there are employers that exploit them and there are criminal elements that exploit them, and that is offensive to the American ideals this country was founded upon.”
Nhekairo will be sentenced on January 13, 2020.
If Sandy Cortez gets hold of this story she’s going to start crying again.
Is the employer with the unprouncable name an American citizen, in this country legally ?
WTF. She couldn’t run away?
If she’d knew then what she knows now, she’d picked her own damn cotton.
I don’t think her name sounds like she might be an American woman.
Because HIRING illegals is ... illegal.
If only there were a solution to this problem. I just don't see one, though.
I’ve seen these personal slave reports sporadically over the years. Every last one of the slave-holders are foreigners - Saudis, Filipinos, Mexicans, you name it.
I’ve never seen a (modern) honky reported as a slaveholder, tho honkies get all the blame by the left.
Seriously, in this day and age?
Who did she think was going to be okay with that?
“Because HIRING illegals is ... illegal.”
Yup, and so is “hiring” trafficked child sex slaves,
but the Dems don’t want us putting a stop to that, either.
She probably feared she would be sent back to Zimbabwe, which is not a place anyone wants to be.
Gee, “Shingaidzo Nhekairo”
Another evil straight white Christian male racist
Is the ‘employer’ being held or is she out on bail?
Why is 8 years of forced labor and presumably around the clock imprisonment worth only $150K?
Naturally, the Democrats profit from it.
Has anyone been able to find a photo of Shingaidzo Nhekairo ? I have looked numerous places. I’m sure that if I, a white man, had kept a black woman as a slave, I’m pretty sure my picture would be plastered from coast to coast.
Wait... there’s something wrong with having a permanent slave-wages underclass?
Not the oppressed coming to the US to become free, but coming to the US to become the oppressor.
A fair punishment: three years in prison for every year they enslaved a person. Strip them of citizenship or legal residency. Deport. And never allow them in the US again under any circumstances whatsoever.
The US needs a “Guest Worker” program. No welfare, college tuition, free medical or “Anchor Babies”. Come & work, get paid fairly and then go home. If your are a good worker and keep your nose clean, you could earn Brownie Points toward Citizenship.
With Roe v. Wade, we’ve murdered 50+ million American workers and between Welfare and the National Education Association, many of our remaining “workers” either don’t know how to work or don’t want to work. With the Democrat candidates falling all over each other to give away the most freebies, I don’t see the situation changing.
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