Human Trafficking on Ohio Egg Farm
Modern day slavery in the United States. This story was on SBS Television in Australia tonight.
Such is the nature of greed disconnected from humanity. What was disturbing was how the chickens were treated in cages, roughly handled, beaks welded and many die. I saw the poor guatamalan kids like battery hens, caged and unable to get out, used for profit. This is a mentality that feels no connection to humans or animals. The reason they can get the boys to work is because they are forced into debt. I know of this practice in India. debt seems a tool in exploitation. If they don’t do it they are intimidated, bullied and there were death threats to family members.
This is the resultant of poverty, lack of education and vulnerability.
This is why unions were created, to protect the rights of employees. If they have no representation they will be exploited. This is what happens in a values free society that promotes money over ethics and integrity.
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Human Trafficking Uncovered On Ohio Egg Farm
Of ten Trillium Farms trafficking victims, 8 are minors
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A new episode of PBS series Frontline has exposed human trafficking and forced labor at an Ohio egg farm.
‘Better life’
The victims, predominantly Guatemalan minors, were told by a trafficker that a better life awaited them in the US and were brought to Trillium Farms to pay off $15,000 of imposed debt.
There, they were forced to work in poor conditions, allowed to keep only a fraction of their pay checks, and met with death threats in the event of protest.
They were given such little freedom that one teen was at Trillium for four months before he managed to call his uncle in Florida for help.
Raid
In response to his nephew’s pleas, fear, and desperation – the uncle contacted the Collier City Sheriff’s office.
Two months later, federal and local authorities raided the trailer park where the workers were held, uncovering at least 10 victims of human trafficking.
Senator Robert Portman – who was Chairman of the investigatory committee – said what authorities uncovered during the investigation that followed was ‘flat out wrong’.
‘To the wolves’
He explained that the Department of Health and Human Services ‘was actually responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of the abusers’.
The government agency reportedly willfully left victims with human traffickers – or, in Portman’s words, threw ‘them to the wolves’.
Speaking with Frontline, he said: “I don’t care what you think about immigration policy.
“It’s wrong.”
Victims
During the investigation, ‘at least a dozen’ connected cases were discovered, apart from those exposed at Trillium Farms.
According to Garance Burke of Associated Press, upwards of 180,000 unaccompanied minors are living in the US in conditions unknown – due to lack of governmental ‘follow up’.