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me is being used to a human trafficking and smuggling article for at least thank you so much for your company by the sometimes the right. how that you out to the highlight for sure every week. not to not if you like history, but with the side of culture, travel and control the see this one i'm ready just do it. and i may send a book us that will put the wow santa back into your everyday, not every day we encounter so many things that we don't even notice that they just go straight into the background. but it is still showing a spotlight on them. what you say might just surprise, we're going to dig up the, the on the everyday things around. where did they come from when,
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why did they have all the time? i should, we can just search for the day and take them out for on the lesson to put down the slavery and the human trafficking us to a huge problem world wide and only a few clicks away on social media on facebook. human traffic as miss need 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 charged me $3.03 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the listed
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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, common 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 eyes that also 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 write 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, to be coming up. i barely 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 company 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 on 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 post might contain advertising the meanings. facebook
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gets a type every time people search for coyotes and their services. there are um many ruth rapture days in language 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 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, montero suff, and 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 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 earning money from advise on 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 lever boy method. aside from the lever 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, their 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 that are used for best purposes, like when a parents want to know the belonging of that child. they want to install an app of that. but like map and check via g p. s and informed the parents on the on the where of the child. but the same device or the same up can be used by a traffic car to have control of the victim and know where he or she is. 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
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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, you can become victims in certain countries in the middle east, the so called kind of follow system fosters exploitation, therefore, and housekeepers or construction workers have hardly any rights in order to work. the job seekers need a local guarantor who is often the employer. this puts employers 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 hash tag golf 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 to us out. a. deborah young ciocca is finally
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home. this time she's bringing other survivors with her. the 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 out of this country, i'm going to become as books possible for those people can speak for themselves. deborah lived in her employer's 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, well i just, um, freaking 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. she went to the bathroom to make a whatsapp call for help, but fainted before she could dial out. 3 hours later, her employer came to find her. she put a pocket they've got pocket but posting the bathroom what i used to use it for
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cleaning. she just took a bit, tap water, 3 times florida. and she just bought from me 3 times and she loved the entire week . deborah and choke out passed out again. when she came to, she gathered enough strength to send a voicemail to her canyon agent to force the family to take her to the hospital. but after just one day, she was sent back to work. the following day i come by 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 go to jordan. others go to cats are united arab emirates, egypt, lebanon, and other gulf states. like barring the for mike,
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is there was kind of sliding these treatments like, you know, it's, you know, given enough food or sometimes you can, you know, it's 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 tech talk. and once that 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 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 them. probably is, even though it was her in danger. deborah,
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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 started 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'm gonna put anything from idaho. so anything many people do, 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 next 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 to me, stiff workers abroad per week, the, the remaining struggling they,
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me to is very, to me, out uh through whatsapp. because i, i have shared my number in my platforms. uh, because i've been to that, i know i, we've life and is between business. 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 about her treatment until they agreed to let her come home naomi's own. deborah online dislikes photo. we have in you to pres, look, so this way i found the and then i tried to share him with my purpose. so like, i'm also new from much 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,
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if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem to country telephone 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 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, she is doing the kind of always in signature style
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