Slave labor being used in Georgia

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Migrant workers trapped in yearslong human trafficking 'slavery' in Georgia

The legal nonprofit representing victims of a human trafficking operation says farmworkers' rights are routinely abused in Georgia. According to the indictment, laborers were detained when not working, charged unlawful fees for transportation, food and housing. And though they were putatively...

www.ajc.com

I thought this was going to be about prison labor, but nope. Pretty damn close to what you would define as classic slavery. Is this making America great again?

 

[SuperMatt]

Migrant workers trapped in yearslong human trafficking 'slavery' in Georgia

The legal nonprofit representing victims of a human trafficking operation says farmworkers' rights are routinely abused in Georgia. According to the indictment, laborers were detained when not working, charged unlawful fees for transportation, food and housing. And though they were putatively...

www.ajc.com

I thought this was going to be about prison labor, but nope. Pretty damn close to what you would define as classic slavery. Is this making America great again?

THIS is why the GOP is so vehemently against fixing immigration. Their donors want to make sure they will always have access to workers that know they are a phone call away from getting deported, so they can pay them little to nothing. All the “border crisis” nonsense doesn’t need to exist. We could fix immigration; but the GOP wants slave labor.

 

[Yoused]

SOP for the GOP. "Human trafficking is Bad!" – (how many 'guest workers' do you have for me today?)

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

"the exploited foreign workers were admitted to the U.S. through fraudulent use of the H-2A guest-worker visa program, which has been booming in Georgia as farmers struggle to find domestic sources of labor."

That can't be true. These illegals are taking jobs away from hard working Americans who would love to do the same work for the same pay. Even comes with housing in a gated community. Sign them up!

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Not to make any "flew on Epstein's private jet"-like insinuations here, but FUN FACT, Bill Gates is the biggest farmland owner in the US.

Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why? | Nick Estes

Gates has been buying land like it’s going out of style. He now owns more farmland than my entire Native American nation

www.theguardian.com

I'm sure he would be outraged to hear this type thing is going on, the big philanthropist with no ulterior motives that he is.