Chapter 171: Human Trafficking
How do you know about the health of these traffickers, who have traveled through so many countries and who speak different languages? It is obviously unrealistic to ask one by one, firstly, there are not so many translators, and secondly, for everyone who wants to go to the United States, the other party will definitely swear that he is in very good health and has no problems at all, but when he arrives at someone's factory, only God knows whether he can work or not.
Help them arrange routine check-ups to test whether everyone is up to standard? With human traffickers, everything is easy as long as you don't talk about money, but when it comes to money, many things become difficult. Damn, when the bosses of those black factories make requests, they only need to move their mouths, and they have to break their legs, why doesn't the other party mention this way of screening labor through physical examination, can't the other party think of this?
Of course, those bosses thought about it, but they felt sorry for their money, so naturally they would not be so generous to solve this problem. So in the end, the problem has to be solved by the traffickers themselves.
Think about it, how to screen qualified labor in a way that does not cost money? They looked at the dazzling sun in the sky, and suddenly thought to themselves, why not let this hot weather help themselves, on the way from South Asia to the United States, which lasted at least 15 days, and they only provided these refugees with the necessary water and scarce food every day, so that they could be scorched by the scorching sun in the container, and in the end, they must be in first-class physical fitness, and they must be able to meet the requirements of buyers.
As for those who fall ill or collapse in the middle of the journey, they can only ask for their own blessings. In fact, these human traffickers feel that they are not so inhumane, they know very well that after the tin container is roasted by the sun, the temperature inside can be raised to more than 40-50 degrees, and it is difficult for ordinary people to withstand the torment inside, so they are covered with heat-insulating fiberglass on the inner wall of the container, so that the temperature inside can be controlled at about 30 degrees, if they still can't survive at this temperature, then it is no wonder that they can't survive.
What if someone dies on the way? Dumped into the sea to feed the fish, the traffickers don't have the time to dispose of the remains.
Even so, in this small, airtight container, so many people crowded together, the air will become muddy, coupled with the smell of sweat and the hull of the ship that is constantly swaying with the waves along the way, it is suffocating to think about. So, although it is the 21st century, this bloody and dark human trafficking trade is no different from the black slave trade during the colonialism of the Great Voyage centuries ago, and in some ways it is no different. At least in the past, slave traders, in order to prevent slaves from escaping and causing trouble, would only string the blacks together by means of ropes, tying them to the wide deck and breathing freely. How can you experience such inhumane torture as a container?
However, in the past, in the major advanced capitalist countries of Europe, the slave trade was almost a necessary item for the prosperity of all seafaring fleets, and the countries almost acquiesced in this practice, and all of them tacitly adopted a blind eye, let alone a legislative effort to curb such incidents.
Therefore, the slave owners at that time drove their fleets to Africa, captured a large number of blacks from there, and then sold them to the homes of various dignitaries in Europe and the United States to serve as lifelong slaves. At the time, the fleet had just arrived at the cargo terminal, where a live slave auction was held, something that traffickers would not have dared to think of now.
Nowadays, it has become the consensus of all countries in the world to crack down on human trafficking internationally. Nowadays, it is naturally even more impossible for dignitaries and dignitaries in various countries to buy and sell slaves to help them with their daily affairs, lest others know about it and damage their reputation and be severely cracked down on by the police.
But now, with the general recession of the world economy, the cost of raw materials, labor and national taxes continue to rise, resulting in the profit margins of enterprises are further compressed. For some law-abiding enterprises, it's nothing, it's a big deal to reduce the scale of production, in order to tide over the current difficulties, the market will not always be depressed, after all, it will usher in the day when the spring flowers bloom.
In most of the world's third world countries, a considerable proportion of the population lives below the poverty line all year round, and there is no way to get out. Why not lure them to the United States and become their own cheap or even free labor?
So, under the interview of these unscrupulous business owners and human traffickers, I hit it off, and I paid you to help me find the labor I needed. Three-legged toads are hard to find, and two-legged refugees are not satisfied with the streets. Nowadays, the human trafficking industry has developed from the initial resurgence to the current situation where the division of labor is clear, and each party has its own responsibilities, as if a complete industrial chain has been formed.
There are local smugglers who are responsible for receiving people, there are boats responsible for coastal trafficking, and there are armed elements who are responsible for enforcing a cordon and controlling the situation on the spot; There are fronts that are used to ventilate and report along the way through various channels to avoid being pursued by the police; There are also convoys that end up receiving hands from human traffickers and transferring these refugees to various sweatshops.
In addition, they were detained in freight containers because there was no more economical way to provide them with food and water at regular intervals. If you want to solve the internal emergency, go to the side of the ship and solve it yourself under the supervision of armed men; If you are sleepy and tired and want to rest, you will lean on the inner wall of the container or someone else's body. Moreover, containers are a very effective means of concealment, and such human trafficking vessels look no different from ordinary or disseminated vessels. It can effectively dispel the doubts of the US Coast Guard.
What if you encounter the kind of coast guards who enforce the law strictly and are very difficult? Then it depends on the strength of the other party, if the opponent is small in number, and does not have any advantage in equipment, and encounters a situation that cannot be fooled, driven by the high profits of a boatload of modern slaves, it is a big deal to fight with the other party, and maybe there is a glimmer of hope for victory.
If the other party is large in number and well-equipped, and it is really impossible to fight, then he can only be prepared to spend the second half of his life in prison, and he will be a good man again thirty years later.