there have been clashes between protesters and security forces in indian administered kashmir the violence started in the city of sirte and our security forces launched an attack on gunmen argentina's peso currency has rebounded after the government's increased interest rates to counter a plunge in its value the central bank raise the rates for the third time in a week to forty percent the measures were taken to try to prevent another economic crisis those are the headlines on al-jazeera slavery a twenty first century evil is coming up next states and canada a country of promise and opportunity for my girl. but with little protection from the state authorities many are forced to pay extortionate relocation fees and this saddled with heavy debts as an adult and i love to come to canada and lot of money in one great group of indonesia because speak out and seek justice for their

exploitation migrant dreams a witness documentary on al-jazeera. three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children will also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.

this series investigates the very modern evil of the twenty first century slavery. from the smallest villages in asia to some of the most economically vibrant cities in the west. but it begins in the last place you'd expect to find slaves. a country which only a few generations ago toward self a pause i hope will slavery a country still racked by collective guilt over its role in the times of planting trees. the united states probably has between forty and fifty thousand slaves measured conservatively but i think also to be fair the united states is one of the governments that has been most honest about the extent the amount and precise crime of enslavement within the united states.

one hundred fifty years. if you walked around the heart of the u.s. capitol you could have walked a slave off a street corner and this country how to go through a painful civil war in order to bring slavery and i'm in the twenty first century there's no doubt that the united states is leading the way in the fight against modern slavery and just test them and for that this country is planning to prosecute the largest ever case against modern slavery. he is america's playground and. the so. but behind the secrets.

of the world. there is a strong possibility that they're very. very exited that you could have been brought to your table by and in slaves. in the land of the free. do you see. how. someone has. some high power. in the remotes northern provinces of thailand life has continued unchanged for

centuries. close knit families eke out a subsistence living by working on sister lands and rights fees. and it was here in two thousand and three the agents for an american farm worker recruitment company came calling. us up on. the need of us all year and the nightmare may be back. oh a. young american woman going to go back where they manufacture. getting them and in kenya. families in a lump and less than one thousand dollars a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would fifty thousand dollars in. there was just one. they had to

pay illegally high registration fees to the recluses up fronts and then. the recruitment place were high they were generally between five hundred and seven hundred fifty thousand or between fifteen and twenty thousand u.s. dollars. for three years of. they believed in the contracted. employment at a rate of eight or nine dollars an hour so when the guys did the math they figured that they could pay off their debt in the first year and then the second and third years would basically profit for their family. if the. decision would be made by more

than one thousand men. in this impoverished corner of thailand was the start of a journey that began with the dream of a future. in slavery. only in the. this is where those men were sent. the key supply routes and vegetables to major will grounds. but very quickly eludes new recruits from the dream they had been sold turned into

a. the problems really started early on for the guys their passports were taken shortly upon arrival they did not have enough food many times they were given moldy bread if anything at all and coffee and oftentimes they didn't have probably most mornings they didn't have enough to eat before going out and starting their toiling in the in the very hot sun on the of the plains which is where loon farms is is located. a ball was at the top of a power. and i studied my heart i know that these all the mass that i want to know always blow up and then when my dad and the next batch of gentlewomen like i fell behind on my tackle that might upset about it cannot be proven to me. and i don't mean it and i'm getting. it back to usual with you i just want to have

and want to ask you before making something weird you know. and then the promise to pay a small fee to dry. they were given the amount of work but the amount of hours per week that was promised and they very quickly started to see again calculating the math in their heads that they weren't going to be able to pay the interest on the debt much less to start paying down the debt. without money and i deleted all my new homes remain. high with his from themselves. i think there is a. bit of that. going by. the . moment they don't happen you know.

but. in december two thousand and nine the owners of aloon farms brothers mike and alex pled guilty to charges of conspiring to hold the time and conditions of. the suse admitted knowing about the illegal recruitment fees confiscating the work as possible and threatening them with financial ruin if they try to escape. what makes this case one of more than slavery forced labor they were constantly being told that if they if they complained. if they didn't work extra hard they were going to be sent home and it was it was the fear of being sent home and the fear of losing everything for their family that kept them in that condition and i think you know there are different ways of

chaining and imprisoning someone all time slavery was i think much more fear of physical. abuse and harm and even death here the threat wasn't so much physical the threat the fear for the victims was complete destitution and loss for their family and they would lose everything and that kept that kept them in that. this is also agreed to pay each of the victims eight thousand dollars compensation enough to enable them to go home to thailand. but what happened next would dash even that. on honolulu many of those victims had waited years to see the case come to me.

but this summer and despite the sea brothers previous guilty pleas elude prosecution it was dismissed on a legal technicality. it left the thai workers without their promised money and completely devastated. someone. like. how. your. thought. that. you come up in the name of god but that. when it. went back up on.

a loon this wasn't the only business impeaching him hope bridge time man at the same time global horizons incorporated a multi-million dollar recruitment agency in los angeles was operating an identical scheme but on a much larger scale. obama rise and essentially applied for at least for over a thousand workers to be brought into this country and they were placed on farms. throughout the united states on the mainland and off the mainland and they were growing and harvesting all kinds of produce they were on pig farms there on a farm there on chicken farms you name it. global targets had the same impoverished villages in thailand as

a loon farms. and it's really the same illegally high registration. there is a set cap of how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the worker should not be paying more than sixty thousand baht that is entirely in thai currency. but in fact what has ended up happening the workers who are tote that they have to pay nine hundred thousand baht. the ended up having to mortgage their lands and their homes. and had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive exporters in debt and and pay high interest sunit signed up with global horizons in two thousand and four.

and i like. that i can be american. in a bag and i'm not so in a diplomat. i'm right i'm not. but i'm really back. sonnets mortgaged his home his fields and his father's land to pay the recruiter's fees but the american dream turned sour very quickly in my last night down how much time go by all i have from i don't see how i got an iraq. and i'm going to say it god that i'm running. shall bring home again my name and i got it i'm like ok i want. my new condo my mic on his i was up that dog uptown man and i can give you one you wouldn't you're going to learn what use

that song for a new meaning long i'm meeting on the whole large a lot of them entirely. let me. now many of those i wish i. could. file a bit. about. this is the man who owned and operated global horizons incorporated an israeli businessman called mordechai orian. mr laurean is extensive business dealings in the united states brought in wealth and to whom in the hills above sentence. but both mr oriel i'm global have a long and checkered history. there are many actions filed against mr ryan

now u.s. federal department labor charges against him. for back wages and penalties and then there are liens on his properties by the i.r.s. the internal revenue service of the federal government because of pay taxes there's also immigration violations. in two thousand and seven individual time workers began arriving at the time and community development center in los angeles. each told a story of having to escape from what they called slavery. they came as far up north as pacific northwest state of washington oregon and then the. desert states you to arizona new mexico and going south texas louisiana florida these are the states where they skate from the farms they were on south carolina.

all the way up to east coast and then of course hawaii the different islands of hawaii but it covers the entire country where the farms where the former slaves were able to sort of run away that's right. son it's was one of those who escaped. in one of. my might do you think hail but i'm not a. whole now and i now think. why do you get. what i want and how and when i can wow what. i'm going to. get in. but escaping from slavery has not made him free. there landing on.

so many salary me excited i did oh my. god and then bye bye. bye. oh man the day you. don't die i need a lot of them who and what. i might die handlers had done any. young women died. in september two thousand and ten the f.b.i. and justice department charged mordechai orian and his key lifton incident global horizons with multiple counts of human trafficking the indictment alleges that global horizons knew about the illegal recruitment fees and took a cuts of them held hundreds of time workers as forced labor on farms across the

united states confiscated their passports and deployed armed guards to prevent them from leaving. this is by far the most significant case in u.s. history of human trafficking and modern day slavery because it will now become go like this case of human trafficking in u.s. history because of this here number of victims involved. trial is not due to start until february two thousand and twelve but after months of negotiation he agreed to meet us in a california hotel room. he now claims he is the victim of a plot by the justice department to cover up flaws in the regulations covering migrant workers coming to america so now there is a problem is that this guy this little jew israeli whatever he come from it's blaming him for everything that we hate and make you think he's human trafficking americanus but you can so you much i mean about anything in fact if you if that's

the philosophy of human trafficking so everything is you're much african going airplane from hawaii to l.a. human trafficking so all their lives and human trafficking business because we traffic my walkers from island to island hawaiian airlines with regard to the registration fees the government alleges that some of these words high as twenty one thousand u.s. dollars i think it's a totally wrong what you say because i don't believe that they pay this kind of out of money i think it's fiction if i'm retired just let's go reverse now and somebody told me i'm going to have a job in another country and by the way this is up and for every country around the ward and i would really eager to go there ok i'll do anything i can to make it happen and i'll go to extreme because i'm jewish the people in the holocaust done anything they can to serve their life you know how many american people to they would be happy to get ten dollars an hour net in their pocket and

have somebody pay for them housing transportation take them to walk every day oh i'll take my grandmother shopping once a week that's what you call human trafficking. in february of two thousand and eleven one of more high aryans most senior left tenants decided to enter into a plea bargain with the u.s. justice department and agreed to turn evidence against his former ally mr bruce schwartz said that he knowingly conspired to in slave time workers with the full knowledge of mr laurean and other members of global horizons that together they purposely withheld the passport of the thai workers thus making it impossible for them to escape and they also knowingly used the huge amount of debts that the thai workers had entered into as a way of enforcing the thai workers to remain and global horizons important. to everything that you have had to face in your code if you personally do you have any regrets i believe if i was myself i would not really go i don't i think i'll fight

it to so now because i think what i've done was a great thing i changed people's life i think the pain of what my family went through and my kids it was a little if i can call it a little holocaust for my family in that if nothing else mr and his alleged victims have something in common. what. about what. about what did. you have to do. parallel. to your. twitter or. subclinical me what i. need but don't really well.

young annoy or what i do you know him babble when one of the. couple got across the united states many of the victims of global horizons a pinning their hopes on the trial of. but the collapse of the prosecution has dented their faith in the us legal system does the american government do enough to end slavery within its borders absolutely not it needs to spend a billion a year perhaps to really wipe it out it spends maybe one hundred two hundred fifty million and it barely scratches the surface and the thing that's heartbreaking about that fact is that the united states could be

a slave free country. today hundreds of the thai slaves who were victims of a new farms and global horizons remain trapped in the united states. unable to return home because of their debts and separated from the families make a try to see. that. yeah.

tried to. follow suit psychology. from the very beginning until the very end the trade in human flesh is big business. and wealthy western nations are implicated how can a girl from. know her way to know how to randomly to know them must be an organized crime magnates sex slaves episode two years of slavery a twenty first century medieval on al-jazeera. we have a news gathering team here that is second to their all over the world and they do a fantastic job when information is coming in very quickly all at once we want to be able to react to all of the changes and al-jazeera we adapt to them. my job is is to break it all down we held the view on the stand and make sense of

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