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California Pot Plant Hires Smuggled People, Forced to Work in Deplorable Conditions
The Independent News & Media ^ | 7/31 | Gemma Iso

Posted on 07/31/2023 3:57:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Authorities claimed Thursday that they discovered dozens of individuals who had allegedly been smuggled into the country working and living in terrible conditions at an illicit marijuana farm in California’s Central Valley.

The operation was discovered by deputies when they executed a search warrant at a location (of the pot plant) on unincorporated territory close to the city of Merced on Wednesday afternoon. The Merced County Sheriff’s Office published pictures online of what seemed to be marijuana-filled trays, bags, and cartons in a dilapidated inner area.

“We literally have thousands of pounds of finished marijuana from an illegal grow and illegal source,” Sheriff Vern Warnke said in a video.

60 smuggled people at Pot Plant

In addition to one adolescent who was visited by child welfare officials and released to a parent, deputies discovered 60 people working there, including men and women who were given different unidentified resources.

In a statement, “Our investigators discovered that these people arrived at the property several days earlier with the promise that they would have a well-paying job and a place to stay.”

Without elaborating on the appalling living conditions, it said, “Once there, they were forced to process marijuana while staying in horrible living conditions to pay back the people that brought them across the border.”

Smuggled and indebted

“These folks are indentured, they owe money … they’re scared to death,” Warnke said.

“It’s heart-wrenching. So, we’re going to try and take care of these folks,” he added.

Authorities didn’t disclose their countries of origin.

Three goats and two dogs that were not being cared for adequately were also rescued, according to the statement.

No arrests were made but investigators were “working tirelessly to find the individuals responsible,” the Sheriff’s Office said.

US law on human trafficking

In order for a human trafficking offense to be committed, neither U.S. law nor international law requires that the victim or the trafficker cross a boundary. Not movement, but exploitation and compulsion constitute the crime of human trafficking. Victims may be exploited in the same communities where they were born or transported hundreds of kilometers away from their homes by traffickers.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; crime; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; drugs; slavery

1 posted on 07/31/2023 3:57:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“ So, we’re going to try and take care of these folks,” he added.”

I suppose sending them back where they came from is out of the question.

L


2 posted on 07/31/2023 4:00:16 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: All

Democrats : “It’s all part of the plan”.


3 posted on 07/31/2023 4:01:29 PM PDT by BipolarBob (My friend David got his ID stolen, so now he's just Dav.)
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To: nickcarraway

I was writing about this a decade ago. They’ve caused many of the wildfires, like 88,000 acres in the la Brea fire.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexican-border-has-moved-800-miles.html?m=1


4 posted on 07/31/2023 4:01:29 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: nickcarraway

I was writing about this a decade ago. They’ve caused many of the wildfires, like 88,000 acres in the la Brea fire.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/mexican-border-has-moved-800-miles.html?m=1


5 posted on 07/31/2023 4:01:41 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: nickcarraway; JustSayNoToNannies

Ehat was it our old zotted “legalize all drugs especially the ones I use” troll justsaynotonannies used to claim?
They said it would create jobs, make drug use safer, people wouldn’t drive stoned, and it was a magical panacea to cure all ills?
Yeah, still not seeing it.


6 posted on 07/31/2023 4:13:18 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: nickcarraway

THEY INVADED THE USA.

SYMPATHY is in the dictionary-—after “S _ _ _”


7 posted on 07/31/2023 4:23:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Lurker

There get none of your tax dollars fo sending them back. Think of the dollars they get in education alone. Guaranteed federal dollars.


8 posted on 07/31/2023 4:29:28 PM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: nickcarraway

Did all their teenage daughters get sent to a different farm?


9 posted on 07/31/2023 4:48:49 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: nickcarraway

The media won’t use the “s” word, but it is slavery.


10 posted on 07/31/2023 5:50:20 PM PDT by Spok
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To: nickcarraway

Are Biden/Mayorkas selling them or just renting them out?


11 posted on 07/31/2023 8:05:50 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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