“Somebody’s doing the raping”
by digby
I think that should be Trump’s campaign slogan.
LEMON: I read [the stats], that’s about women being raped. It’s not about criminals coming across the border entering the country.
TRUMP: Somebody’s doing the raping, Don. I mean, you know, somebody’s doing it. You say it’s women being raped. Well, who’s doing the raping? Well, how can you say such a thing?
Funny thing. It turns out that somebody is doing the raping — “job creators” like Donald Trump:
The H-2 visa program invites foreign workers to do some of the most menial labor in America. Then it leaves them at the mercy of their employers. Thousands of these workers have been abused — deprived of their fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation if they dare complain. And the government says it can do little to help. A BuzzFeed News investigation…
All across America, H-2 guest workers complain that they have been cheated out of their wages, threatened with guns, beaten, raped, starved, and imprisoned. Some have even died on the job. Yet employers rarely face any significant consequences.
Many of those employers have since been approved to bring in more guest workers. Some have even been rewarded with lucrative government contracts. Almost none have ever been charged with a crime.
In interview after interview, current and former guest workers — often on the verge of tears — used the same word to describe their experiences: slavery.
These are legal immigrants.
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