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and all the input u, v w story. now, on to the slavery and human trafficking us today, she was problem world wide and only a few clicks away on social media on facebook, human traffic as mislead migrants, promising them 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, you all these, these smugglers and the lucrative organized crime network that transport people and goods across the mexico. u. s. border. in collaboration with cartels,
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they charge between $3.75 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the elicit services is easier than ever all things to the social media. welcome to the dark side of tech talk. here smugglers advertised their services and they do it in plain sight. just as you see on screen comments, sections are chalk full of requests for more information. they are then invited to chad 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, the sheer volume of videos of shocking, even for migration expert, guadalupe caught a, a couple data. i mean, i was like, how could you audit so you are using take talk. but then i realized that take talk was very important for priorities to increase their business and to be coming up, i very important facilitator. the videos are usually simple. a few pictures of travelers of a city in the us and
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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 a template i chose as 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 chip talking 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
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gets a cut every time people search for coyotes and their services. there are many ruth 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. the tips of making the perilous journey . i 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, that's what's manuel monteros, so from 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 monta russo no
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earns enough from social media. cities move back in our lives in his home country of columbia and cushion valley has stayed in the us since emigrating there. now he shows his followers what his new life is like in the land of opportunities. how being earning money from advise on unauthorized and dangerous integration. that might be questionable, but human traffic goes 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, the german anti trafficking network, k o. k found that traffickers use big online job offers k ok,
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interviewed people from west africa in 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 used common tracking apps to monitor their victims. the eps that are used for best purposes, like 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 with sign 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 coined to collect their earnings, making the flow of money very hard for authorities to track mobile networks and
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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 it's kind of follow system foster's exportation therefore, 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 employee as in a position of great power. nevertheless, the prospect of better pay is tempting for many. they are coming to the 5000 videos on the, the has 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 herself. deborah young ciocca is finally
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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, part fun. for those people can speak for themselves. deborah lived in her employer's home and saturday, a 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 checking everything. you're not sick, so it became that i became more week more week. and then i'd say that like, i'm going to wait to die and she went to the bathroom to make a whatsapp cold for health books painted before she could dial out 3 hours later, her employer came to find her. she put
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a pocket they've got positive and twisting 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 poured for me 3 times twice. and when she left there during the entire week, deborah indian ciocca past state 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. but after just one day, she was sent back to work the front of me to come back and to continue with the walk. uh like and nothing happened. so i said, no, 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 the reason for my
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kids. there was kind of slight mist treatments like, you know, it's, you know, given enough food or sometimes in 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 based in gulf country. most of these women had funding their jobs via take talk. and once that according to the u. n. women and children, especially at risk when it comes to motive slavery. this often happens through 4th marriages, for example, social media can sometimes also help those affect it to defend themselves. deborah, on the and ciocca became an active as of the experiencing abuse. now she's helping people escape exploited that and probably is even though it was her in danger.
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deborah indian ciocca is calling out the abusers of canyon domestic workers. the women or families of victims contact her for help. she holds live streams, explaining how the women have been harmed, and named the agent who brought the victim to the gulf. i excited to 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, i almost got anything from idaho. so anything many 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 because sometimes 6 semester just, which are which makes me feel insecure. encrypted messaging is a crucial tool for deborah indian ciocca. she communicates with up to 10 domestic workers abroad per week that we've been struggling. they made it very to
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me out through workshop because i, i have shared my number in my platforms. uh, because i've been to that i know uh with life and is between the deb rinni and ciocca. so she's helped more than a dozen women, including naomi know can do. deborah pressure naomi's boss and agency via what's up and posted videos about her treatment until they agreed to let her come home. naomi's own deborah online. just like photo lisa in youtube says look, so this way i found the and then i tried to share him with my profile. so like i'm also new from black net 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, need that make it switched off. but once we connected with the internet,
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if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem, she can reach out on facebook and take it off. and then we get to, 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, struggling to prevent the misuse of their platforms. but what do you think should social media pitfalls be doing more to combat smock? less than human traffic of that is no, that's it. from me. she is on the enter. the conflicts own with tim sebastian, i guess from belinda is alexander w. director of the con, the russia,
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your agent center for now rush is economy has stabilized. and mr. put in, incisive on war crimes charges is nonetheless finding plenty of friends so well as new found confidence symptom into a big a role with ukraine. i've even a fight with mason conflicts the next on dw, the from our media to russia using his grandfather's war. time diary as a guide filmmaker, how cool milk on young takes us on a very personal journey through lands as geo politically contested. today, as they were decades past, the war diary in 30 minutes on the w. we've got some hot tips for your package that zip code is.
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so cities check on some great cultural memorials to boot w, travel regarding the, the slow crew context and ukraine will soon, the head ends with 3rd you with the pressure on care to advance on the battlefield . and re energize support in the west. my guess from belin is alexander w, director of the con, the russia, your agent center. the bad news is that unfortunately, the support for your trade in the west or apo lake is going down for now. rush is economy has stabilized. and mr. put in and dykes is on war crimes charges is none. the less finding plenty of friends to talk to and visit so well as new phone comes .

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