Posted on 06/25/2019 12:08:07 PM PDT by mr_griz
A Shasta County couple is accused of conspiring to bring a Guatemalan family to the U.S., harboring them after their visas expired and forcing them to work for minimal to no pay.
An indictment outlining the allegations against Nery Martinez, 50, and Maura Martinez, 50, of Shasta Lake, was unsealed Monday by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
The indictment alleges the couple went to extended lengths to pressure a Guatemalan mother and her two daughters into working long hours at a restaurant and cleaning service for little to no compensation.
According to the indictment, the couple owns Latino's Mexican Restaurant in Shasta Lake and Redding Carpet Cleaning & Janitorial Services.
On Monday afternoon, a sign on the restaurant's front door on Shasta Dam Boulevard stated Latino's is closed "until further notice."
The couple is accused of threatening the family with arrest, separating the mother from her daughters, and using "physical, psychological and verbal abuse," to compel the family to work, according to the indictment.
The couple is also accused of imposing a debt on the victims to prevent them from returning to Guatemala, according to the indictment.
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If they quickly file for incorporation, using illegals as slaves is quite acceptable.
If they get them registered as Democratic voters all will be forgotten.
That thing back in the 1860's was just a momentary interruption.
As I have been saying, demonicrats are the biggest slavers and human traffickers the world has ever known.
And the problem with illegals forced to work for next to nothing in a foreign country is??? . They should have walked out and turned themselves in, they would have gotten a free ride back home
We have slavery in this country.
The Democrats are the party that wants to expand it.
Nothing really new in this.
What the article doesn’t say. Either one or both of the Martinez’s are from Guatemala.
But since they didn’t, you get to be slave masters! How cool is that? (Barf!)
“What the article doesn’t say. Either one or both of the Martinez’s are from Guatemala.”
Well, they are Hispanic and they are exploiting other Hispanics. So it’s just another example of interethnic abuse, just like the Blacks did when slavery started here.
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If they get them registered as Democratic voters all will be forgotten.
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True. The cheap-labor-express side of the Uniparty already had its go of ‘em...
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