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tv   Shift  Deutsche Welle  January 13, 2024 3:02am-3:16am CET

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to schumann traffic is mislead migraines, promising then lucrative jobs in industrialized countries. don't take talk, so called communities also help in crossing the us border, but in very dangerous ways. how are they doing this? over 2500000 people were apprehended by the united states border patrol in 2022. many of them were brought into the country by so called co t's these smugglers and the lucrative organized crime network that transport people and goods across the mexico. u. s. border in collaboration with cartels, they charge between $3.75 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the listed services is easier than ever. all things through social media. welcome to the dark side of tech talk. here's some others advertise their services, and they do it in plain sight. just as you see on screen. calm and sections are chalk full of requests for more information. they are then invited to chad
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privately. these posts are easy to find. just a quick search for the i have, i start those who need those guarantees that those guaranteed trips to the usa this year. volume of videos of shocking, even for migration expert, guadalupe caught a, a couple data. i mean, i was like, how could you read it? so you are using take talk. but then i realized that take talk why it's very important for priorities to increase their business to be coming up. very important, such as the tater, the videos are usually simple, a few pictures of travelers of a city in the us and a message to assure future customers. it's an industry that's also flourishing on facebook, on the platforms marketplace ads for people. smugglers appear alongside ads for use cell phones and cars. facebook marketplace makes it easy to get in touch with the sellers. a direct and private chat is just a click away. however, put
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a company that tells us the platform is mainly used to seek out information, not for payment. number of times, they get information about the fees about the route. it's an informing and purposes . and many of these, you know, transactions are basically done to watch some more than any tick, tock and facebook guidelines for bid posts that promote people smuggling. but the platforms are rife with them. what's more, the platform's profit directly posts might contain advertising meetings. facebook gets a cut every time people search for coyotes and their services. there are many rule with refugees and migrant. 0 is on their way to the us. most commonly trouble. us make the journey from columbia through the diarrhea and triangle to panama before crossing mexico to reach us tips on making the perilous journey. i
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know also coming from the migrants themselves, many refugees post their experiences on social media. almost like tutorials reckoning up millions of likes and views. but just how difficult is the jungle crossing from columbia to panama in reality witness, that's what's manuel monteros up in venezuela. and that includes malik from india, wanted to find out the peer has become influencers, giving tips like how to avoid ambushes and games in this region known as the diary and gap. both of attractive tens of thousands of followers, manuel montero, so no earns enough from social media studies, move back in our lives in his home country of columbia and cushion valley has stayed in the us since immigrating there. now he shows his followers what his new life is like in the land of opportunities. that'd be
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earning money from advise one, unauthorized and dangerous immigration. that might be questionable, but human traffic does use social media to make money to the people in a valuable position abroad with false promises. you found out more about how they do it. many traffickers used eating apps, social media and encrypted messengers to ensnare victims promising love and a better life. it's called the letter boy method. aside from the letter boy method to german anti trafficking network, k ok found that traffickers use big online job offers k ok. interviewed people from west africa and europe who became victims in germany. once they arrived there traffickers took their documents. they were then forced into jobs or 6 work against their will. the traffickers also use common tracking apps to monitor their victims. apps that are used for best purposes like
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when a parents want to know the belonging of that child. they want to install an app that puts it like map and track via g p. s and informed the parents on the, on the where of the child. but the same device or live same up can be used by a traffic car to have control of the victim and know where he or she as traffickers . also use digital wire transfers like big going to collect their earnings, making the flow of money very hard for authorities to track mobile networks and phones, offer the traffic or secure anonymity. it's a brutal and illegal business that exploits and traumatize us vulnerable people. the un estimates that up to 50000000 people worldwide live in slavery like conditions more than half of them are subjected to forced labor, even people who enter another country legally, it can become victims. in certain countries in the middle east, the so called kind of follow system foster's exportation, therefore,
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and housekeepers all construction workers have hardly any rights in order to work. job seekers need a local guarantor who is often the employer. this puts employers in a position of great power or never the less the prospect of better pay is tempting so many. they are coming to the 5000 videos on the have to go jobs on take talk alone, according to take their own analysis. they have already been viewed 54000000 times . but why does a job like under these conditions? we spoke to an activist was lifted us out. deborah young ciocca is finally home. this time she's bringing other survivors with her. they are 3 of more than 100000 canyon women, worked as me and the gulf states. after i came back, i had to promise myself. like if i make you felt of this country, i'm going to become as books, possible for those people can speak for themselves. deborah lived in her employers
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home and so do you review working 18 to 20 hours a day. she says her employer refused to take her to the hospital when she got sick, she would say why just fucking everything. you're not sick. so it became that i became more week my week and then i'd say that like, i'm going to wait to die. she went to the bathroom to make a what zip code for help books painted before she could dial out. 3 hours later, her employer came to find her. she took a pocket. they've got pocket reports in the bathroom. i what i used to use it for cleaning. she just so it could be a top ortho, 3 times florida. and she just bought from me 3 times while. and when she left there during the entire week. deborah and ciocca, passport again. when she came to, she gathered enough strength to send a voicemail to our canyon agent to force the family to take her to the hospital.
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but after just one day, she was sent back to work the following day, i come by and to continue with the walk. like and nothing happened. so i sat there now seeing the life difference in that house. 70 percent of the kenyan women who do domestic work abroad. go to saudi arabia, 9 percent due to jordan, others go to cuts, our united arab emirates, egypt, lab and on, and other gulf states like rain. the for mike is there was kind of sliding these treatments like, you know, it's, you know, given enough food or sometimes you to time even with given food. but then i, i didn't, i didn't see as much much suited mistreatment like they are, the ones who are beaten according to the canyon, eat organization hockey, africa in 2020 a lot. there were more than 51 complaints of abuse from canyon domestic workers
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based in gulf country. most of these women had funding their jobs via tech talk and one cent the, according to the u. n. women and children, especially at risk when it comes to modern slavery. this often happens through 4th marriages. for example, social media can sometimes also help those effected to defend themselves. deborah, on the and ciocca became an active as of the experiencing abuse. now she is helping people escape exploited them, probably as even though it was her in danger. deborah, in the ciocca, is calling out the abusers of canyon domestic workers. women or families of victims contact her for help. she holds live streams, explaining how the women have been harmed and names the agent who brought the victim to the gulf. i try to see a fair look on 6 talking because it's the easiest way to reach many people are white or this. and it was a bit fit for me because i am gonna put anything from idaho. so anything many
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people, it is easy. yeah. she goes by the handled the lucky mom, but her job can be dangerous. i decided maybe to expose these platform maybe using my platform and then i received threats cause sometimes 6 semester just which are which made me feel insecure. encrypted messaging is a crucial tool for deborah indian ciocca. she communicates with up to 10 to me, stiff workers abroad per week. the that we've been struggling. they may do is really to me, out through workshop because i, i have shared my number in my platforms because i've been to that. i know i, we rely on who's speaking, this is deborah in the and ciocca. so she's helped more than a dozen women, including naomi new can do. deborah pressure naomi's boss and agency via what's up
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and posted videos about her treatment until they agreed to let her come home. naomi's own deborah online. i just like photo we in youtube says look, so this way i found a huh. and then i tried to share him with my roku. so like i'm also new from what's that and whatnot? deborah's network has grown so much that other women refer maids and distress to her. staying connected is key to bringing women back home when they get to that they can, you know, needs that make it switched off. but once we connected with the internet, if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem, she can reach out on facebook and don't take it off. and then we get tools to help them out. social media and makes it easy for human traffic as in smugglers. to take advantage of people, people who only want a better life. and unfortunately, only a fraction of cases i exposed companies like mad alphabet and take dogs, parent company by them,
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struggling to prevent the misuse of their platforms. but what do you think? should social media platforms be doing more to combat smock, less than human traffic? of that is no, that's it. for me, she is doing the dw, so let's take socks. we in fact, every day, the world caution, really world wide web feel free to leave a doctor that always highlighted becomes all the we can take the different w call the world. and also your info is and all the input your b, w story. now one to the,
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the big city at night dark this no longer exists in many places around the world.

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