Yeah the US's definition of human trafficking is...not good. Like if this was on a much larger scale, it wouldn't even be illegal. JP Morgan Chase hiring thousands of visa workers and paying each one $10k/year less than comparable American-born employees? That's just the system working.
And that $10k reduction in pay is essentially the result of them holding deportation over your head. If the threats are made via boilerplate contracts then it's good and legal.
ok but "human trafficking" is a bit of a stretch. It seems he was charged with and convicted of "alien smuggling" The crucial difference is, I think, that in this case it was ostensibly consensual. Seasonal workers making minimum wage at resorts and being charged absurd amounts for fraudulent visas by the smugglers? horribly exploitative and clearly illegal, but it's not exactly slavery. one of the documents says that most of the laborers had tickets to return home, and it was essentially a financial decision.
I don't mean to minimize him systematically exploiting desperate people, he's clearly a massive scumbag. I just wanted to point out that it seems like the core crime here was visa fraud. As for the rest of it, and having read the witness testimony linked, this just sounds like common domestic business practices. These are all things that american contracting companies already do with American citizens, and I've experienced it. The company putting workers up in crappy apartments where you have to share a room with multiple other people? Check. The middleman company charging you a fee for the gig, as a coercive mechanism, so if you bail you're on the hook for a large lump sum? Check. Shit wages and regular labor violations? Check.
Yes, this is illegal, but when has the US given two shits about labor violations? It's still incredibly profitable for such contracting companies. In my case, I was able to sue the company afterwards, over the shittons of unpaid overtime, and after prolonged legal efforts, and the lawyers getting half the settlement, I got some compensation. But that was just the amount that they were supposed to have paid me for overtime. Forget about the illegal financial coercion and the problem with your boss being your landlord, because companies don't face consequences for that. And at the end of the day, they paid me roughly half of what they were getting from the corporate client, so it was still profitable for them and it continues to be their business model.
I'm an immigrant but most of my coworkers were born and raised in the US. So if this is how Americans are exploited by American companies, I imagine much worse is happening to illegal immigrants, who essentially have no legal recourse.
EDIT: just realized this was a video post lmao. to be clear, I did not watch the video and this was just based on the documents linked.
My girlfriend was diagnosed with BPD like 5 years ago and I went through the same thing. I researched it, found a bunch of really alarming stuff online and freaked out.
We're still together, in a long term, stable relationship, and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. My advice is don't overreact. My psychiatrist's advice, when I asked about it, was essentially that if I had decided I loved her, the new label doesn't really change anything. All it did was create a vague sense of anxiety about the relationship, which turned out to be totally unjustified.
It seems to me that BPD gets a obscene amount of stigma. It is so fucked up that people with BPD are the targets of such frenzied hate, especially on these deranged internet communities. I don't know if it exists on a spectrum and my girlfriend has a mild form or even if it's just a matter of misdiagnosis. (She had been previously diagnosed with Bipolar, but it was changed to BPD after further evaluation). Speaking from my experience, I'd say you shouldn't let it be a deal breaker.
Anyway, fuck the hate from the neurotypicals. You know this girl best and you're the only one qualified to decide how you feel about her.
Yeah but where do you get the vitamin C? Isn't half the problem that it breaks down easily, and fruit can't be kept fresh for very long?
It's questionable whether this knowledge will spread or persist that well. The British navy figured out how to prevent scurvy and then forgot again.