Posted on 10/20/2014 1:46:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The first thing the firefighters saw was the arm sticking out of the barred window on the second floor of the factory. Flames reached through the partially collapsed roof and a high column of smoke darkened the winter sky. This fire had been burning for some time.
The fire station is two minutes from the Teresa Moda garment factory, on the edge of the main industrial zone of Prato, a town outside Florence. The zone was developed for Italian textile manufacturers in the 1980s but now is predominantly Chinese. […]
Prato is the epicenter of a thriving, illicit Chinese economy that has grown in the wake of Chinese immigration. More than 40,000 Chinese live in the city—some 15,000 of them illegally. Many migrants have replicated the habits of home and created a kind of outsourcing. Merchandise isn’t exported; China itself is.
Thousands of people have been smuggled into Italy, finding work at factories that ignore basic safety standards, while billions of euros are smuggled back to China, police investigations show. The savings on tax and labor costs have given businesses that don’t follow the law a crushing competitive advantage. …
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bflr
Don’t kid yourself, there’s some of that behavior going on here in the good old USA with Chinese nationals.
The Red Devils wore Prato
And with lots of other ‘nationals’ as well. . Same story, different century. And all of them happening in liberal Democrat controlled cities.
Same as it ever was. But lets nor build a fence or enforce immigration. That would hurt people.
You’re kidding me. I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you. /s
Is anyone ever going to pick up on the poor children in this country who are getting sick and dying from EV-D68 brought in by Obola’s children from south of the border?
I’ll always remember the little girl as she became paralyzed with the crap for which our children have no antibodies, “Mommy, I can’t feel my hands.”
Pitiful and criminal. Another CDC lie that it did not come from Central America.
The parasite is about to kill the host and we placed it on ourselves.
What is it with lib controlled cities that they all end up becoming a smaller form of “Babylon” with ethnics always overrunning the locals?
I detest and loathe (all forms) immigration more than Obola. Diversity always destroys....
Happened in S.F. several years ago. The chinese can be very secretive and untrustworthy. It burned up a bunch of warehouses and killed 2 people.
Italy, like us, is committing suicide - and are further along than us. It’s such an incredibly beautiful country, with a very long history of great craftsmanship in many areas (clothing, shoes, ceramics, glass, architectural design, ship building, furniture, cabinetry, jewelry, wine making, etc. etc.) - but like us they are letting their heritage and manufacturing base be taken from them.
In the meantime, immigration continues (although at least recorded immigration has eased a bit), Italy’s economy is in a mess, and the birthrate of Italians hit a record low in 2013.
All of those illegal factories exist simply because of government corruption, with bought-off officials looking the other way.
The same way your "Made in the USA" label really means "Made in a Sweatshop in L.A. by Illegal Aliens."
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