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They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
- lithos 9y agoThis reads like a horror you'd expect from China or North Korea. Rather than the USA.
- theyregreat 9y agoUndocumented migrants are treated just about the same at the five mega-processing plants. Amputations without access to workers’ comp. are common.
- carlmr 9y agoI don't know, I hear more of these stories from the USA than from the other two. Granted NK probably has a stricter policy on journalists. But this seems very common for the US.
- dTal 9y agoThis kind of abuse is pretty quintessentially capitalistic. It is exploiting the weak for no reason but to make money - no ideology underpins it but the bottom line. You might find a similar story in China now that it is economically capitalist, but the horror of North Korea is of an entirely different character.
- subwayclub 9y agoIt reads like "The Jungle".
- dTal 9y agoHorrifying. What can an ordinary person do about such a grotesque miscarriage of justice, when it's backed by powerful moneyed interests and the local "justice" department is fully on board? >Before CAAIR, McGahey had no interest in drugs. Now, he says he can’t live without them That's some "rehab".
- throwawayknecht 9y agoIt's not a matter of when class war will break out in the US, but rather when enough of the working class will realize they've been losing it for decades.