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Human Trafficking or just plain ol slavery?

Steve

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guess who? it couldn't be those human rights defenders in the sand...

The State Department confirms that federal law enforcement officials removed two potential human-trafficking victims from the home of a Saudi Arabian diplomat in Northern Virginia on Tuesday afternoon.

“The U.S. State Department is aware of this matter. Diplomatic Security is aware of the matter,” State Department spokesperson Patrick Ventrell told reporters on Wednesday. Ventrell said that the department was working with both the Justice and Homeland Security departments and specifically Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who is taking the lead on the case.

The two women who were removed from the home are from the Philippines, Montgomery said, but there has been no formal determination that they needed to be rescued.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/human-trafficking-probe-at-home-of-saudi-diplomat/



The two women who were removed from the home are from the Philippines, Montgomery said, but there has been no formal determination that they needed to be rescued.

Recent cases have involved an Italian government worker at the consulate in San Francisco who was prosecuted in 2011 for keeping a Brazilian woman as an involuntary servant. The same year, a naval officer from the United Arab Emirates was acquitted at a federal trial in Providence, R.I., on charges that he had kept a Filipino woman as an unpaid servant.

Domestic workers' visas are tied to employment with a particular household, so quitting or standing up to abuse runs the risk of deportation. For domestic workers who live in the home, leaving a job also can mean homelessness, Williams said.

Torres said trafficking cases involving domestic workers are a particular problem in the Washington area, in part because of the presence of a large diplomatic corps and cultural differences -- some countries consider it acceptable to treat workers more harshly than is allowed in the U.S.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/02/2-workers-removed-from-saudi-owned-residence-in-va-in-human-trafficking/
 

hypocritexposer

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I'll reserve judgement for now, until it has been determined if the females came of their own free will or not.

Mail order brides come over from the Phillipines all the time. Are they "trafficked". Not sure. Might just be a case of those that want to legally immigrate, not being allowed, or getting tired of the wait and bureaucracy

IMO, to prove trafficking, you would have to prove that they were "lured" under false pretenses, or "stolen" and shipped to NA against their will.

It might be a case of individuals from another country than mexico, doing the same exact thing as Mexicans do, which it seems, is allowed.
 

Steve

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it appears by the article that the two were domestic servants..

in the north east this is a common problem.. rich foreigners get "help" over and then treat them like slaves..

Domestic workers' visas are tied to employment with a particular household, so quitting or standing up to abuse runs the risk of deportation. For domestic workers who live in the home, leaving a job also can mean homelessness,

which is why the title questioned whether it was human trafficking or just plain ol slavery..

but since it was a consular / diplomat from Saudi.. they probably had to insinuate human trafficking just to get warrants.. :?
 

Mike

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There are as many Filipino slaves in Saudi as there are Filipinos in the Phillipines.

Read that 3 times real fast. :roll:

Seriously, the only people that work in Saudi are the slaves. The rest are all tied to the gov't teat.

http://xrdarabia.org/2008/06/13/runaway-maids-in-saudi-arabia/
 

loomixguy

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Mike said:
There are as many Filipino slaves in Saudi as there are Filipinos in the Phillipines.

Read that 3 times real fast. :roll:

Seriously, the only people that work in Saudi are the slaves. The rest are all tied to the gov't teat.

http://xrdarabia.org/2008/06/13/runaway-maids-in-saudi-arabia/

100% correct. This is the norm when Filipinas head to Saudi. They are aware that it will probably happen to them, then act surprised as hell when it does. :roll:

Some even wind up dead at the hands of followers of the Religion of Peace.
 
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