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to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the vault follow the u.s. elections on a. bomb to 300 years the most powerful nations on earth group richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade over 12000000 men women and children were forcibly 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 19th century it is a life it is thriving and it is bigger than ever.

this series investigates the very modern people of the 21st 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 tore itself a pause to outlaw slavery a country still racked by collective guilt over its role in the transatlantic trade . the united states probably has between 40 and 50000 or so. 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. 150 years ago if you walked around the heart of the u.s. capital you could have walked a slave of a street corner and this country how to go through a painful civil war in order to bring slavery and i'm in the 21st century there's no doubt that the united states is leading the way in the fight against modern slavery and this testament to that this country is planning to prosecute the largest ever case against modern slavery. america's playground. but behind the secrets hidden in plain sight.

to produce the food the rest of the world. there is a strong possibility that there are very. very eggs that. could have been brought to your table by enslaved. in the land of the free. do you see. how. someone had. some high power that kept all the time but. they were.

in the remote's northern provinces of thailand life has continued unchanged for centuries. close knit families eke out a subsistence living by working on sister lands and right streets. and it was here in 2003 the agents for an american farm worker recruitment company came calling. but. there's often. a need of us all together and me and i know my back. oh a. young american woman going to go back where a man going to back. getting there and in kenya. families in lump and less than $1000.00 a year. the recruiters told them that in america they would

$50000.00. there was just one. they had to pay illegally high registration fees to the recruiters up front and then. the recruitment place were high they were generally between 50750000 tie bought or between 152-0000 u.s. dollars. for 3 years of. they believed guaranteed work in the contracted. employment at a rate of 8 or $9.00 an hour so when the guys did the math they figured that they could pay off their debt in the 1st year and then the 2nd and 3rd years would basically profit for their families.

if the. decision would be made by me $1000.00 men like. in this impoverished glimmer of thailand was the start of a journey that began with a dream of a future. in slavery. only in. the. now. this is where some of those men were sent. the key supply routes and vegetables to major will some brands. but very quickly

illusions new recruits from the dream they had been sold into a nightmare. 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 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 in the plains which is where a loon farms this is located. a cow. and i studied my happened just the softness in my house that's all blotted out how far left my dad and my family going to get a little redneck that like all the high from attack on how i might have gotten that and i'm going to have been

a. black. man i mean it and land. it back to what you're alleging i have and want to ask you to perform it for something new . and then the promise to pay started to dry up. they were given the amount of work 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 isolated on the moon farms remote to use the time workers found themselves. they say this habit of asking them if they would. get out of the stuff that parlato not to buy. that are not so fast wake up before the court and all i phone my saying i'm

going to ask about my mistake that happened you know i got back at my government or i need to be in court that's on one hand and i allowed them to call my name and get off but i guess after all. in december 2009 the owners of balloon farms brothers mike and alex he pled guilty to charges of conspiring to hold the time and conditions. the souse admitted knowing about the illegal recruitment fees confiscating the work as possible and strengthening 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 of losing everything in their family that kept them in 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 with those everything and that kept that kept them in that. this is also agreed to pay for each of their victims $8000.00 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 here is to see the case come to me. but this summer and despite the sea brothers previous guilty pleas prosecution was dismissed on a legal technicality. it left the time workers without their promised money and completely devastated. when someone caught. for couple of the. cow on the government some high power the mere polite you'll have to look up with. i left it at the. top lip. and watch i come up there with the name a comet that. went. with him and went up to the couple and. elude

. the only business competing in the whole 1st time men 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. the. global rise and essentially applied for at least for over a 1000 typhon 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 egg farms there on chicken farms you name it.

global targets at the same impoverished villages in thailand as a loon farms. and this recruit just the same illegally high registration fees the buddha there's a set cap on how much you're supposed to pay for work abroad so in this case for farm work in the u.s. the workers should not be paying more than $60000.00 baht that is. current c. . but in fact would have ended up happening the workers who are taught that they had to pay $900000.00 baht and they ended up having to. their lands and their homes. and had to. take money from loan sharks borrow money to massive exorbitant debt and and pay high interest

sign it signed up with global horizons in 2004. to agree with you and. now what. do you mean by that are you legion the american. you're not going to be on one soul in gippsland by doing all my shit i'm right i'm not my meal i'd like to just one on one thing the god of the macwhich long here but here i'm really. sorry it's 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 young last night down town was our school ball i don't see how i got there are. not going to say it. that i'm running. going home again my pain i mean i. don't want i want. my new god made me god and his idol is up to dogs. and i've got. to go they're going to learn what use of songs the

meaning wrong i'm meaning on the whole are going on to i'm going to. many of. my neighbors now are hard to monitor as 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 the us 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 2007 individual thai 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 fat as it states you to arizona new mexico and going south texas louisiana

florida these are the states where they skate from all 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. i might do you think tonight down hail and i got a. hole now and i now. get. what i want and how and when i can what. i'm going to. get in. but escaping from slavery has not made him free.

there landing on. him i mean the salary i made i did with my. gun and by. i. oh man today you. don't die nice. and what. i might die handlers had done any. more. in september 2010 the f.b.i. and justice department charged mordechai orian and his key lieutenants and 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 hearing that pair of victims involved. trial is not due to start until february 2012 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 to be his human trafficking american to but you can so you much i mean about anything in fact if you if that's the philosophy of human trafficking so ever these are much african going on airplane from hawaii to l.a. if 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 $21000.00 u.s. dollars i think it's a totally wrong what you say because. i don't believe that they pay this kind amount of money i think it's fiction if i'm retired and 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 happened for every country around award 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 $10.00 an hour net in their pocket and have somebody pay for them housing transportation take them to walk every day all take my grandmother shopping once a week that's what you call human trafficking. in february of 20111 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 passports 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 global horizons employment. after 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 regret and 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. to have. said. let me come in with. me

but i don't really well. young annoy or what i do you know about all who are. 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 aloon farms 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 1000000000 a year perhaps to really wipe it out it spends maybe 10250000000 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 are victims of a new farms and global horizons remain trapped in the united states. unable to return home because of their debts and separates it from the families when they could try to. get. their money on the. yeah. i think you.

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