Slave labor in America today (10-24-14)

http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/21/pf/labor-trafficking/index.html?hpt=us_bn5

Basically, immigrants to the united states, whether illegal or legal, are being deceived and abused. Recruiters come to their home countries, offering promises of money, benefits, and perks. When the immigrants arrive to work, they are coerced into signing agreements they do not understand, making them pay huge sums of money as "recruitment fees," and effectively making them indebted, and forced to stay on for years and years.

This article is somewhat eye-opening to hardworking people being taken advantage of by American farmers and businesses. It's a disgusting thing that in our free society, we still have to deal with these kind of situations. The kicker is really that 70% of the immigrants were legal, and should have been, and should be protected. While fighting against illegal immigration so hard, I think we have overlooked a serious problem in America. No one living here should be so indebted to their employers to the point they can't get away. The ability to quit a job is a luxury we take for granted, even when we need the money to survive, we can still quit, but not everyone even has the option. Law enforcement needs to worry less about illegal immigrants, and focus more on the human injustices and abasement committed in widespread mockery of the laws of the land. The fact people give up so much to come here, and are so desperate to be in America, is one that deserves consideration. It should be easier to immigrate legally, and with registered citizens at work, they can be better protected, and not lost in the cracks, and illegal immigrants are still people, and even if they came across the border illegally, they deserve fair treatment too. This issue goes way deeper than meets the eye, mistreated workers are only the top of the ice burg in abuses committed against mainly Hispanic immigrants. The people who use these people and abuse them in such ways are going to have to pay.