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in traffic as mislead migraines, 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, 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 key or smugglers, 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 eyes that also need those guarantees that those guaranteed trips to the usa. this your volume of videos, a shocking, even for migration expert, guadalupe caught a, a couple data. i mean, i was like, how could you audit sir? 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 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 you, 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. ever cut,
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a top of that tells us the platform is mainly used to seek out information, not for payment. a number of times they get information about the fees about the route, it's an information 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 platforms 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 in language 0 is on their way to the us. most commonly, travelers 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, 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 coach molly 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 earning money from advise on unauthorized and dangerous
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integration. that might be questionable, but human traffic goes use social media to make money to the people involved with the position abroad with false promises. you found out more about how they do it. many traffickers used eating app, social media and encrypted messengers to ensnare victims promising love and a better life. it's called the lever boy method. aside from the lever boy method to german anti trafficking network, k o. k found that traffickers use big online job offers k ok. 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,
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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 um on 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 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, you can become victims in certain countries in the middle east, the so called co 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 employer 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 who is lifted us out. deborah indian 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 promised 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
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home in saudi arabia, 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 what's up call for help but fainted before she could die. like 3 hours later, her employer came to find her she put a pocket that pocket and tossing the bathroom where i used to use it for cleaning. she just a sofa bed top or the 3 times florida. and she just poured for me 3 times twice. and when she left 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.
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but after just one day, she was sent back to work the front of the box 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 canyon women who do domestic work abroad. go to saudi arabia, 9 percent due to jordan. others go to cats are united arab emirates, egypt, lab and on, and other gulf states like during the, for my kids. there was kind of slight misstatements 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 me statements like they are the ones who are beaten me. according to the canyon eat organization hockey, africa in 2020 a low. 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 once that according to the u. n. women and children, especially at risk when it comes to motive slavery. this often happens to force 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 is helping people escape exploited this employee is even though it was her in danger. 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,
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i almost got anything from idaho. so anything many people it is easy. yeah. she goes by the handle, 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 remaining struggling. they made it very to me out uh through whatsapp because i, i have shared in 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 mo, can do deborah pressure naomi's boss and agency via what's up and posted videos
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about her treatment until they agreed to let her come home. naomi found deborah online. just like photo we have in youtube says look, so this way i found the and then i tried to share him with my purpose. so like i'm also new for like 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, your needs and they just switched off. but the ones we connected with the internet is very easy. maybe when somebody has a problem, she can retail with 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. from me. see is on the account. draw the line between the spacings because i don't believe that space is, is a morally relevant criteria in any more than i believe that rice or sex is on frontier . and. 2 2 2 humans are closer to a chimpanzee. san a chimpanzee is even to a dog. a duck here series about our complex relationship with animals. watch now on youtube. d. w documentary. disruption is the call.
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