More On Afghan Slavery In The Pacific Northwest

By James Fulford

10/21/2008

Linda Thom forwards another couple of stories about the Afghan Slavery case, one of which actually mentions the immigration status of the accused in the first paragraph.

5 accused of enslaving girl | Afghan immigrant wed at age 13, By Paul Shukovsky, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, October 16, 2008

5 King residents charged in Afghan girl’s forced labor, By Noelene Clark, Seattle Times, October 16, 2008

Prosecutors: Afghan girl enslaved in Wash. By GENE JOHNSON, AP, October 16, 2008 SEATTLE — Five Seattle-area immigrants from Afghanistan enslaved a teenage girl they brought to the U.S., with some forcing her to do chores and one — her 37-year-old husband — beating and sexually assaulting her, according to a federal indictment unsealed this week.[More]

Linda writes

I sent the Seattle PI and Seattle Times articles on the Afghans. They are in the country legally and they don’t speak English. I suppose they are refugees but who knows?

The girl is illegal as she entered under a visa illegally but good news, she is eligible to stay in the US as she is a victim of human trafficking.

Then she can apply to reunite her family … . and the beat goes on.

I think the poor girl doesn’t have any actual family, which is how she wound up in this fix. Query — do you think that the accused, if found guilty, will be deported to Afghanistan? I doubt it — an immigration court will think it’s too dangerous. The only way an illegal immigrant could get sent to Afghanistan by the American government is if he enlisted in the US Army.

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