Article Says U.S. Must Strengthen Protections for Exploited Guest Workers

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The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/opinion/02mon3.html) opined, "Slavery and human trafficking are alive and well in the United States, according to lawsuits filed by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of farm laborers in Hawaii and Washington State and shipyard workers on the gulf coast." Maintaining "today's shackles are the threats of deportation and financial ruin," the Times says the US "urgently needs to strengthen protections for guest workers who are lied to by recruiters and tied to employers with too much power to exploit them." Indeed, a "recent agreement by the federal Labor and Homeland Security Departments to work together on immigration and labor enforcement at worksites is encouraging," and the Indian and Thai men "may win some money," but they "are only a handful of workers...stranded in a system that accepts their labor but fails to prevent their exploitation."

From the American Association for Justice news release.





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