Wednesday, November 09, 2011

HUMAN TRAFFICKING GETS LOCAL: RECENT ARRESTS & RAIDS FIND 27 VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN LARGO FLORIDA


Recently, FBI agents with local assistance made arrests for charges of Human Trafficking at a Chinese Buffet in Largo, Pinellas County, Florida involving workers at the restaurant on East Bay Drive. The raid netted a large group of 27 illegal aliens who according to authorities were allegedly being used improperly with little or no wages, unfit working and living conditions that including being hauled in vans to and from work. 
The restaurant reportedly offered exceptional values to customers, but I know at least one Clearwater Criminal Defense Lawyer who won't be eating there anytime soon.
Often Human Traffickers make false promises to lure illegal aliens then use fear and differences in culture and language to entrap them.
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Gustave Boulanger, The Slave Market, 1882
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A boy slave in the slave trade market of Zanzibar punished by his ‘Arab master’ by being chained to a 32 pound log.