Report: Slavery 'Alive and Well' in U.S.

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=716&e=7&u=/ap/20040225/ap_on_re_us/human_trafficking

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Modern-day slavery is alive and well in Florida, the head of a human rights center said Tuesday as it released a report on people forced to work as prostitutes, farmworkers and maids across the state.



Human traffickers bring thousands of people into the United States each year and Florida is believed to be one of the top three destinations, along with New York and Texas, according to the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at Florida State University.


Although there have been several prosecutions of human trafficking in Florida, no one knows how many people in Florida are under the control of traffickers, said Terry Coonan, the center's executive director.


In south Florida, federal prosecutions have indicated hundreds of farmworkers were victims of human trafficking, and a forced prostitution ring identified as many as 40 young women and girls brought from Mexico. The center also cited a case of "domestic servitude" in southwest Florida.

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[corporatewhore]

1. check out my links on my sig s

[mermaid]

2. Recently, In Texas....

Two men were charged with running a prostitution ring right here in Austin. It involved women from Oriental countries. they were brought here, then forced to prostitute themselves to pay off their smuggling fees.

[Shanty Oilish]

3. 2004...anyone give a damn yet?

Apparently not. It's never anyone we know, never our sisters, it's too big, too shadowy, they're just the poor, they're just women.
Immigrants. Illegals. Dark people.
It's not just Florida and Texas either. There are slaves in New Jersey and New York as well.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Repeat after me: "Saddam had rape rooms"

Don't you feel much better now? Me neither.

Don

[saigon68]

5. No Don it was the Serb's who had rape camps

Or was it babies thrown froom incubators.

Hard to get it straight.

[BayCityProgressive]

6. yet none of our our legislators

In New York, FLorida, or Texas do anything about this? Perhaps I am generalizing or they have doen thigns I just haven't heard about but isn't Hillary Clinton supposed to be some wonderful womens and human rights activist? So what is she saying about this in New York?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Get it straight.

Hussein raped a baby that had been thrown out of an incubator by Slobodam Milosevic.