{"id":2761,"date":"2010-09-03T01:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T08:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2010-09-03T01:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T08:47:57","slug":"immigration-republican-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/immigration-republican-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration, Republican Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

It goes without saying that Republicans oppose immigration reform.  One of the main reasons is that undocumented workers can\u2019t complain when the Republican\u2019s corporate cronies exploit them for their labor.  But in a hard economy sometimes mere exploitation is not profitable enough for them.  Why just exploit, when they can enslave?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"republican_seal_cuffs\"<\/a> The US Justice Department on Thursday announced indictments against six people for luring 400 Thais to the United States and conspiring to force them into working as farm laborers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A grand jury in Honolulu indicted the six for their alleged scheme "to coerce the labor and services of approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the United States from Thailand from May 2004 through September 2005 to work on farms across the country."<\/p>\n

Officials said Israeli Mordechai Orian<\/strong>, Pranee Tubchumpol, Shane Germann and Sam Wongsesanit of the Los Angeles-based company Global Horizons Manpower conspired with Thai labor recruiters Ratawan Chunharutai and Podjanee Sinchai to carry out the crimes that began with false promises of lucrative jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Thais, upon arrival in the United States, had their passports taken away and forced to pay thousands of dollars in recruitment fees, which were "financed by debts secured with the workers’ family property and homes."<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now the article does not contain a single word about the Republican Party, so you may wonder just how I\u2019m making the connection.  It turns out that the chief perpetrator has been investing in getting away with it, and the investment paid off\u2026 until now.  Mordechai Orian was a frequent and generous donor<\/a> to the Republican Party.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It goes without saying that Republicans oppose immigration reform.  One of the main reasons is that undocumented workers can\u2019t complain when the Republican\u2019s corporate cronies exploit them for their labor.  But in a hard economy sometimes mere exploitation is not profitable enough for them.  Why just exploit, when they can enslave? The US Justice Department […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}