Posted on 03/28/2019 2:17:24 PM PDT by PBRCat
Concepcion Malinek's tried to help the immigrants, offering them shelter from trouble in Guatemala, her lawyer said.
When they got to the Cicero home where a woman had allegedly “enslaved” Guatemalan immigrants for years, the FBI had to break down every door, a prosecutor said.
Inside, agents found “deplorable” conditions. Mold. Cockroaches. Mattresses “all over the place.” And sewage backing up in the basement where Concepcion Malinek allegedly forced the immigrants — one as young as 18 months old — to live.
Malinek told the immigrants they couldn’t leave until they paid debts to her worth thousands of dollars, prosecutors say. That included the rent she charged them to live amid the squalor. When one immigrant fell behind on payments, she allegedly refused access to a bathroom until she was at least paid a late fee.
But Thursday, Malinek found herself in federal custody and facing a judge. Her lawyer argued that she had actually tried to help the immigrants, offering them shelter from trouble in Guatemala. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Parente said Malinek had instead “exploited the exploited” for financial gain.
“Don’t dare say she has a good heart,” Parente countered.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Just like their homes.......................
Put that on the news in Mexico and points south and maybe some will decided not to invade the US.
It weren’t MY home!
Leftist family values.
See, see! These wonderful immigrants were learning how to become home inspectors or pest exterminators! How can you right-wingers be so racist??
there’s a big industry in transporting illegals on credit.
These migrants coming up, 82% of which had jobs they left, don’t have the $10K for the coyotes (if they did, they wouldn’t be coming up to begin with). But they have family left behind as collateral and they have family here that are also collateral. Those indentured think when they get to the USA, the coyotes will go away. But the cartels already have extensive networks in place from the drug trade, so they will get their money one way or the other, whether it’s work houses, theft rings, drug mules to other cities or prostitution.
Sure must beat the hell out of Guatemala though or they wouldn’t keep coming
Having traveled the Third World this would probably seem like paradise to many people from points south.
“””He also said Malinek’s husband — a TSA officer — is a subject of the investigation.”””
It just keeps getting better.
I live in an affluent area east of Seattle that is almost 40% foreign born.
We recently had a major prostitution bust where several Asians were arrested for holding about a dozen other young Asian women in semi-sex slavery.
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