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Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized in New York
Daily News ^ | July 1, 2020 | Stephen Rex Brown

Posted on 07/01/2020 2:18:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in New York announced Wednesday they had seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp.

The shipment of almost 13 tons of hair products worth more than $800,000 bore signs of “potential human right abuses of forced child labor and imprisonment,” the agency said in a release. The violations included “use of prison labor” and “additional situations of forced labor, including, but not limited to, excessive overtime, withholding of wages, and the restriction of movement,” according to Customs officials...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: china; newyork; newyorkcity; uighurs
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There's probably worse where that came from, if you know what I mean.
1 posted on 07/01/2020 2:18:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

What kind of degenerate orders this filth From China to begin with?


2 posted on 07/01/2020 2:20:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is More often surrendered than seized.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Who wears hair weaves?


3 posted on 07/01/2020 2:22:32 PM PDT by Salman (A faction of the ruling class is trying to cancel America.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

You load 13 tons, and what do you get?


4 posted on 07/01/2020 2:23:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Amazing the stori9es hair can tell....


5 posted on 07/01/2020 2:27:20 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Apparently, they make sure to utilize all parts of the body.


6 posted on 07/01/2020 2:29:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Many come from India.


7 posted on 07/01/2020 2:30:22 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: CheshireTheCat

Germany.
1945

Lots and lots of cheap shoes available. If you weren't picky about where they came from.

8 posted on 07/01/2020 2:33:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Hmmm! “forced labor, including, but not limited to, excessive overtime, withholding of wages, and the restriction of movement” Sounds an awful like slavery to me.


9 posted on 07/01/2020 2:33:13 PM PDT by deener
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To: hinckley buzzard

Brunettes?


10 posted on 07/01/2020 2:35:02 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: dfwgator

You load 13 tons, and what do you get?

Bald?


11 posted on 07/01/2020 2:35:46 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Welcome to the Fourth Reich of Asia!


12 posted on 07/01/2020 2:36:07 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: tet68

“You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt”


13 posted on 07/01/2020 2:40:31 PM PDT by Dacula
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#2: "What kind of degenerate orders this filth From China to begin with?"

Oh, I'd say Bill Kristol and George Will for example. Mitt Romney, Mike Lee — the usual suspects.

Because free trade.
 

14 posted on 07/01/2020 2:41:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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Nice!
Now do joews administered Gulags.

We remember the Holodomor, 14MM+
15 posted on 07/01/2020 2:45:35 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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You load 13 tons, and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.

16 posted on 07/01/2020 2:48:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: kaktuskid

The Tech Reich love the CCP. So does the democrat dinosaur Biden


17 posted on 07/01/2020 2:51:17 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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instead of all those words, why not call it “slave labor”?


18 posted on 07/01/2020 2:59:17 PM PDT by MAGAthon (h)
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To: CheshireTheCat

It’s cheaper than Indian. Find and watch the Chris Rock documentary “Good Hair”.


19 posted on 07/01/2020 3:22:49 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: CheshireTheCat

Any lamp shade samples in that shipment?


20 posted on 07/01/2020 3:32:03 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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