"Report: California a leading port for forced labor"
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More than 10,000 foreign-born people are working under slave-like conditions in the United States, and California is a major port of entry for them, a new report said Thursday.
The study by the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley and the non-profit Free the Slaves said that about half those brought into the country for forced labor end up in the sex business, many as prostitutes... [followed by domestic servants...]
"Forced labor persists in these sectors because of low wages, lack of regulation and monitoring of working conditions, and a high demand for cheap labor," said the report...
The report drew its analysis from published accounts of criminal cases brought against captors, interviews with service providers and eight case studies...
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John S Bolton (not verified)
Mon, 09/27/2004 - 22:02
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This indicates how an unprincipled openness can cause our minimum standards to fall back to barbaric levels. An undiscriminating tolerance allows for more than a century's progress in improving standards to be thrown away. Compassion for those with the unscrupulous willingness to trash our minimum cut-off of decency, brings things as low as this kind of import.