02/08/2005
Ever wonder why a particular fast-food outlet or chain store branch in your neighborhood seems to employ almost exclusively members of some particular foreign group?
Almost certainly there is a people-broker — the British call them "gangmasters" — responsible. Someone who undertakes to supply quantities of compliant help, frequently drawn from his own country of origin.
This function, much more than the better-known border smuggling operations, is the drive-shaft of illegal immigration. Think about it: who would risk a dangerous and expensive crossing without very high confidence of quick employment in the unknown city to which they are headed?
In the UK, a Ukrainian who
… arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker in 2000 … so poor that he had elastic bands round his shoes
has just been convicted of supplying over 700 workers to the Scottish fish processing industry. Estimated to have been clearing over $5 million a year, he faces 14 years in jail [Police hail gang master conviction BBC NEWS February 3 2005]
Question to VDARE readers: How many convictions like this have you seen in America? (Note money laundering/tax evasion aspect).
Have you seen any?
Why not?
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