FL Tomato Growers guilty in Slavery Case

[nosmokes]

One more reason to know where your food comes from, or at least avoid the industrial crap that passes itself off as food. I hope these holes do some hard time.
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original-newspress

Five plead guilty in Immokalee slavery case
Immokalee residents brutalized farmworkers

By AMY BENNETT WILLIAMS • • September 3, 2008



Five Immokalee residents pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan workers, brutalizing them and forcing them to work in farm fields.

The 17-count indictment in the case - one of the largest slavery prosecutions Southwest Florida has ever seen - was originally released in January. It alleged that, for two years, Cesar Navarrete and Geovanni Navarrete held more than a dozen people in boxes, trucks and shacks on the family property, chaining and beating them, forcing them to work in farm fields in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina while keeping them in ever-increasing debt.

Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy called it "slavery, plain and simple."

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complete article here

[Hubert Flottz]

1. The Pigs that did this should get the same treatment.

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. Put them on a roadside chain gang with a tough as nails straw boss... n/t

[Ian David]

3. You know, enough with these illegals taking the slavery jobs away from American slaves.

Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

Ok, just in case.

:sarcasm:

[nosmokes]

5. ha!

[entanglement]

4. Line the fu**ing slave-drivers up against a wall and shoot 'em

[Romulox]

6. This is the inevitable consequence of an unregulated job market.

You argue against workplace enforcement? You argue for this.