Posted on 06/17/2006 1:00:11 PM PDT by Americas Frontline
The last known ringleader in a case of human smuggling that began unraveling at a Grand Forks restaurant and turned into one of the biggest human trafficking cases in the nation's history was sentenced to prison in federal court this week in Fargo.
It ends a key phase of the case - involving 6,000 illegal immigrant workers slaving in Asian restaurants across the Midwest - but more cases against more restaurant owners might be built, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nick Chase, who prosecuted the case.
"This whole case started with two Mexican guys who walked away from the restaurant in Grand Forks - or were fired - and were found walking along a road outside Grand Forks in a thunderstorm," Chase said Thursday.
That was in August 2004. The two Mexican men told agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement they had been working more than 70 hours a week for less than $2 an hour at the Buffet House, a Chinese restaurant on Gateway Drive and Stanford Road. They had been living with eight other restaurant employees in a small apartment a block from the restaurant.
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Now there's a job most Americans wouldn't want.
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Slave labor, pure and simple.
Maybe our resident Dixiecrats would like to defend these modern day slave traders and tell us how they're just helping people get jobs serving food.
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Slavery simply put is legal and given blessing by congress, senate, White house, and the CATHOLIC church...
Slavery is ok with the Catholic Church? Where and when? Regarding U.S. History and Congress, and the Senate and the White House, definitive slavery was terminated after the Civil War. Prejudice and racist attitudes was not.
If you mean that illegal aliens who work for less than minimum wage are slaves, well, not technically. They aren't bought or sold, and they've entered into a contractual relationship, albeit illegal with all parties involved. They've given up their ability to negotiate a fair wage because they're here illegally, and their employer, who is illegally hiring them, holds the cards. The illegals should be deported and their employer should go to jail. As for the
Church, it's never approved of slavery and has often been aiding those who are unjustly treated by employers or plantation owners. Please provide some concrete examples and so I can retract my understanding of history.
I don't think you need to retract anything, but Cardinal Mahoney thinks we can't get enough illegals in California. I guess 6 million illegals times 4 babies won't cut it.
He's an embarassment to the human race, much less the U.S. and the Christian, or even more defined, the Catholic faith. An egomaniacal jerk and one of the few remaining old liberal leftist guard left in the U.S. Catholic Church. His days are numbered, and may he be called and judged soon. He is an abomination and gives bishops of anykind a bad name.
Thanks, John. You have character.
WRONG! What the Church is working for is justice for those who are being treated this way. She's working for laws that would protect people. Having them registered, and given work cards would go a long way toward this. Then employers with immigrants without those cards could be SEVERELY punished, and the word would go out not to employed those who are not registered and checked out by the govt.
I was born and brought up catholic. 40 years of watching this parish I belonged to favor illegal immigrants and doing nothing to stop human traficking puts them in the light of favoring slavery.
If this organization wants so much to say about this and other topics, they should start paying taxes to the government.
I'm sorry your animosity to the Church is blinding you to the good she does. Should ALL Churches pay taxes if they get involved in things that might have something, even peripherally, to do with politics?
I don't consider paying taxes my 'tithe' to the government in order to have permission to express my opinion on any topic I wish. Therefore, I don't believe any organization should have to be subject to taxes before it can express a collective opinion, either.
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