Democrats love the open borders so they can exploit minors. Another reason why we need the border secure. And Comey and the FBI sat on their asses!
Each year, tens of thousands of children enter the United States
unaccompanied by their parents or relatives. If taken into U.S. custody, those
children are designated “unaccompanied alien children” or “UACs.”
Congress has tasked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with finding appropriate homes in which to place UACs temporarily, pending the resolution of immigration proceeding
Workers trafficked for Ohio egg farms had little contact, lived in poverty
MARION, Ohio - The silver Ford Econoline van inched its way down the rutted, narrow streets of the mobile-home park and stopped at Lot #7. Two Latinos, one of them obviously a juvenile, got out and walked into the trailer. The FBI special agent staking out the property noted the time as 4:17 p.m.
The vehicle next stopped at Lot #232. Two more Latinos exited, one of them a teenager. Then it stopped at Lot #226, where a young Latina was standing at the window. Then another stop. And another. And another. The agent wrote that he saw 10 people in all dropped off in that rural Marion County neighborhood that December afternoon, but added that there likely were more out of view from his post.
He was back in Oakridge Estates about 4 the next morning only to see the van return before dawn, making its rounds again, this time with the driver honking the horn as a signal in front of some trailers and this time, the teenagers and men were piling in instead of climbing out.
The agent, according to an affidavit filed in federal court, followed the van to the Trillium Farms chicken barns on Township Highway 103 in Marseilles in Wyandot County, just across the Marion County line. It’s about a 14-mile trip passing through the village of LaRue and by almost nothing but farm fields.
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The FBI was there that day because more than three years before, in October 2011, the federal government got a tip that someone was smuggling illegal immigrants to work at some of Ohio’s egg farms .
Authorities now say it was even worse than feared. They say that old van was full of Guatemalan teenagers (and a handful of adults) who had been recruited and then brought into this country with the promise of a safe place to live and an education.
Instead, court records say, they were kept hidden away in those unsafe and unsanitary house trailers -- some without heat and running water, some teeming with rodents and bugs -- that were owned by the ring’s leaders.
Their captors took most of their money. One teenager told investigators that the men in charge had given him only $100 total from his paychecks over the four months he’d been working. Records show the workers had earned paychecks of about $500 a week for six or seven 12-hour days.
Men who were part of what the authorities now call a human-trafficking conspiracy transported the Guatemalans to Trillium’s Wyandot County barns, as well as to the company’s operation in Hardin County.
Because they were contract workers doing chores, including cleaning cages and debeaking chickens at the egg farms, the workers were supervised on site by the same people who were running the trafficking ring because they owned the companies that Trillium Farms had contracts with, documents show. That limited their contact with others.
Federal prosecutors say the workers were kept in line with physical violence and threats to kill their families back home.
An indictment unsealed and announced earlier this month by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland charged Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, 33, of Pecos, Texas; Conrado Salgado Soto, 52, of Raymond, Ohio; Ana Angelica Pedro Juan, 21, of Columbus; and Juan Pablo Duran Jr., 23, of Marysville, with crimes in connection with the operation.
A couple of counterparts -- more bit players than ringleaders -- had been charged earlier, and records in their case provide additional details.
The three men are due in court to enter their initial pleas on Monday; Pedro Juan pleaded not guilty on July 2, the same day the charges were announced.
Trillium Farms has not been charged with anything, and company officials have said they immediately fired the contracted company under investigation and have cooperated with the federal government.
Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said the most recent indictment names 10 victims, but the evidence will show there were more. And he said the investigation continues.
Records show that when authorities raided 16 trailers in Oakridge Estates on Dec. 17, 45 people (many of them younger than 18) were rounded up and taken to a hotel.
The ring apparently operated in obscurity. Or maybe someone noticed something was amiss but kept quiet, Dettelbach said.
“Nobody wants to be a snoop, right? Nobody wants to be a buttinsky. We as a people like to live our lives and bury our heads in the sand.”
That’s a shame, he said. “We need people to pay attention. We need people to be better neighbors. It doesn’t do any harm to report what you see. If you’re wrong, everyone goes about their business. If you’re right, you could save someone’s life.”
Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that as many as 14.2 million people are forced into work in industries such as agriculture, construction, domestic work and manufacturing.
Dettelbach said it can happen anywhere -- in the center of a big city or tucked into the rolling hills of the Ohio countryside -- because those who force others into slave labor use a variety of tactics to keep their victims under control.
In this case, the court records show that teenagers who refused to work or asked questions would be told that they, or their parents, would be killed. That’s a plausible threat for these workers.
“For the most part, in the countries where these victims generally come from, if someone says they will bring harm to your family, they can and they do,” he said.
And the isolation likely wasn’t that difficult, said Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey.
The trailer park where the immigrants lived showed signs of deep poverty, the kind of neighborhood where people don’t meddle in their neighbor’s business, Bailey said.
The sheriff’s office has done a number of drug raids at Oakridge over the years and responds maybe a couple of times a month for things such as loud music, thefts or fights.
“But it isn’t as if we go door-to-door checking on people,” Bailey said. “And we don’t have the right to even stop and question someone who we think may be illegally in this country.”
In some neighborhoods, such poor housing conditions might have raised red flags or caused building-code or health inspectors to come around asking questions. But because of the way mobile homes are legally categorized and regulated in Ohio, there’s no real oversight.
Now, though, more than four years after that initial tip, the teenagers and adults the government says were treated as modern-day slaves are being helped by the Salvation Army of Central Ohio.
Salvation Army caseworkers made certain they had safe shelter and food, clothes and medical care after they were rescued in December, said spokeswoman Kelli Trinoskey. Then the caseworkers made sure they had legal representation.
And then they started to earn their trust.
“Remember, these are people who have been manipulated and lied to by others who promised to take care of them before,” Trinoskey said. “We become their support system, and once they see we do what we say we will, it gets better. We just have to tell them over and over that they’d done nothing wrong.”
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Each year, tens of thousands of children enter the United States
unaccompanied by their parents or relatives. If taken into U.S. custody, those
children are designated “unaccompanied alien children” or “UACs.”
Congress has tasked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with finding appropriate homes in which to place UACs temporarily, pending the resolution of immigration proceeding
Workers trafficked for Ohio egg farms had little contact, lived in poverty
MARION, Ohio - The silver Ford Econoline van inched its way down the rutted, narrow streets of the mobile-home park and stopped at Lot #7. Two Latinos, one of them obviously a juvenile, got out and walked into the trailer. The FBI special agent staking out the property noted the time as 4:17 p.m.
The vehicle next stopped at Lot #232. Two more Latinos exited, one of them a teenager. Then it stopped at Lot #226, where a young Latina was standing at the window. Then another stop. And another. And another. The agent wrote that he saw 10 people in all dropped off in that rural Marion County neighborhood that December afternoon, but added that there likely were more out of view from his post.
He was back in Oakridge Estates about 4 the next morning only to see the van return before dawn, making its rounds again, this time with the driver honking the horn as a signal in front of some trailers and this time, the teenagers and men were piling in instead of climbing out.
The agent, according to an affidavit filed in federal court, followed the van to the Trillium Farms chicken barns on Township Highway 103 in Marseilles in Wyandot County, just across the Marion County line. It’s about a 14-mile trip passing through the village of LaRue and by almost nothing but farm fields.
Related content
Man pleads guilty to forcing immigrants to work on Ohio egg farms
August 25, 2015
Portman demands answers on teen-smuggling ring
July 13, 2015
Four accused of aiding slave-labor ring on Ohio egg farms
July 2, 2015
The FBI was there that day because more than three years before, in October 2011, the federal government got a tip that someone was smuggling illegal immigrants to work at some of Ohio’s egg farms .
Authorities now say it was even worse than feared. They say that old van was full of Guatemalan teenagers (and a handful of adults) who had been recruited and then brought into this country with the promise of a safe place to live and an education.
Instead, court records say, they were kept hidden away in those unsafe and unsanitary house trailers -- some without heat and running water, some teeming with rodents and bugs -- that were owned by the ring’s leaders.
Their captors took most of their money. One teenager told investigators that the men in charge had given him only $100 total from his paychecks over the four months he’d been working. Records show the workers had earned paychecks of about $500 a week for six or seven 12-hour days.
Men who were part of what the authorities now call a human-trafficking conspiracy transported the Guatemalans to Trillium’s Wyandot County barns, as well as to the company’s operation in Hardin County.
Because they were contract workers doing chores, including cleaning cages and debeaking chickens at the egg farms, the workers were supervised on site by the same people who were running the trafficking ring because they owned the companies that Trillium Farms had contracts with, documents show. That limited their contact with others.
Federal prosecutors say the workers were kept in line with physical violence and threats to kill their families back home.
An indictment unsealed and announced earlier this month by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Ohio in Cleveland charged Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, 33, of Pecos, Texas; Conrado Salgado Soto, 52, of Raymond, Ohio; Ana Angelica Pedro Juan, 21, of Columbus; and Juan Pablo Duran Jr., 23, of Marysville, with crimes in connection with the operation.
A couple of counterparts -- more bit players than ringleaders -- had been charged earlier, and records in their case provide additional details.
The three men are due in court to enter their initial pleas on Monday; Pedro Juan pleaded not guilty on July 2, the same day the charges were announced.
Trillium Farms has not been charged with anything, and company officials have said they immediately fired the contracted company under investigation and have cooperated with the federal government.
Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said the most recent indictment names 10 victims, but the evidence will show there were more. And he said the investigation continues.
Records show that when authorities raided 16 trailers in Oakridge Estates on Dec. 17, 45 people (many of them younger than 18) were rounded up and taken to a hotel.
The ring apparently operated in obscurity. Or maybe someone noticed something was amiss but kept quiet, Dettelbach said.
“Nobody wants to be a snoop, right? Nobody wants to be a buttinsky. We as a people like to live our lives and bury our heads in the sand.”
That’s a shame, he said. “We need people to pay attention. We need people to be better neighbors. It doesn’t do any harm to report what you see. If you’re wrong, everyone goes about their business. If you’re right, you could save someone’s life.”
Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that as many as 14.2 million people are forced into work in industries such as agriculture, construction, domestic work and manufacturing.
Dettelbach said it can happen anywhere -- in the center of a big city or tucked into the rolling hills of the Ohio countryside -- because those who force others into slave labor use a variety of tactics to keep their victims under control.
In this case, the court records show that teenagers who refused to work or asked questions would be told that they, or their parents, would be killed. That’s a plausible threat for these workers.
“For the most part, in the countries where these victims generally come from, if someone says they will bring harm to your family, they can and they do,” he said.
And the isolation likely wasn’t that difficult, said Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey.
The trailer park where the immigrants lived showed signs of deep poverty, the kind of neighborhood where people don’t meddle in their neighbor’s business, Bailey said.
The sheriff’s office has done a number of drug raids at Oakridge over the years and responds maybe a couple of times a month for things such as loud music, thefts or fights.
“But it isn’t as if we go door-to-door checking on people,” Bailey said. “And we don’t have the right to even stop and question someone who we think may be illegally in this country.”
In some neighborhoods, such poor housing conditions might have raised red flags or caused building-code or health inspectors to come around asking questions. But because of the way mobile homes are legally categorized and regulated in Ohio, there’s no real oversight.
Now, though, more than four years after that initial tip, the teenagers and adults the government says were treated as modern-day slaves are being helped by the Salvation Army of Central Ohio.
Salvation Army caseworkers made certain they had safe shelter and food, clothes and medical care after they were rescued in December, said spokeswoman Kelli Trinoskey. Then the caseworkers made sure they had legal representation.
And then they started to earn their trust.
“Remember, these are people who have been manipulated and lied to by others who promised to take care of them before,” Trinoskey said. “We become their support system, and once they see we do what we say we will, it gets better. We just have to tell them over and over that they’d done nothing wrong.”
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