[hedgetrimmer]

Chinese workers don't expect $10 per hour or any benefits

Correct, they don't even expect to get paid! How many millions of farmers forced off their land in China to go work in the construction industry in Shanghai and other cities did not receive payment for their work for 10 years? Oh thats because in China, slavery is OK. What moral American would have a slave to do his labor? Didn't America make the great moral decision to outlaw slavery 140 years ago? The Einsteins negotiating "free trade" deals think that slavery is wrong in the US but not in China, India or the Sudan? Or maybe they want to bring slavery back to the US in due time? Oh wait, but they already have! The free trade lobby going after the illegal immigrant labor force has actually reinvigorated slavery in America!

Sex slaves hidden victims in trade

The actual number of US slaves (forced to work without pay as farm workers, domestic servants and prostitutes) is unknown. The State Department estimates that between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the US each year, far lower than some calculations.

"Maybe half that annual number, or more, become sex slaves," says Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a Washington-based non-governmental organisation. "It's a very hidden crime. And it's one in which the crime is not an event, like a mugging reported to the police, but a process."

[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: slave trade

Those are astonishing numbers.

But the "free traders," pro-migrant "cheap" labor folks are likely to believe that you are supporting their position.

No, "free traders." Slavery is not suppose to be good.

[all4one]

"The free trade lobby going after the illegal immigrant labor force has actually reinvigorated slavery in America!"

Exactly what I have been thinking as I watch the apologists who want the U.S. to absorb every illegal who crosses our borders. Many churches are also zealously incouraging giving money to help the illegal immigrants. It seems that the dirty secret of the industries near our borders, is that they are enjoying the profits made on the backs of the "illegal immigrant slaves" who are crossing our borders.

[Cronos]

Pray tell how is there 'slavery' in India due to outsourcing?

[GOP_1900AD]

Slaving (both the trade and employment aspects) deserves the death penalty.