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 PRINTABLE PAGE All Work, No Pay Contractor charged with failing to give wages to 4 day laborers By Bart Jones, Staff WriterOriginally published in Newsday, June 13, 2002 Launching an unprecedented crackdown against employers who exploit day laborers in New…

 PRINTABLE PAGE 3 Charged in China Alien Smuggling Originally published by The Associated Press, July 10, 2001 SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities have indicted three men, two of them citizens of China, on charges of smuggling Chinese into the United…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Man Given 11 Years for Holding Illegal Immigrant in Slavery Originally published in the Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2001 A Los Angeles man who held an illiterate Bangladeshi woman in servitude for five years was sentenced Monday…

 PRINTABLE PAGE 14 Immigrants Die in Arizona Desert Rescuers seek three others still believed lost Originally published by The Associated Press, May 24, 2001 WELLTON, Ariz. — Fourteen illegal immigrants were dead and at least three others remained missing Thursday,…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Alleged Immigrant Smuggler Could Get Death Sentence By Giovanna Dell’OrtoOriginally published by The Associated Press, May 30, 2001 PHOENIX (AP) — He was once considered a lucky survivor, one of a handful of people who had managed to…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Guide For 14 Illegal Immigrants Who Died In Desert Gets 16 Years In Prison By Hernán RozembergOriginally published in The Arizona Republic, February 22, 2002 A guide for an illegal immigrant smuggling operation that left 14 Mexicans dead…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Report: Foreign House Help Abused By Katherine Roth, Associated Press WriterOriginally published by The Associated Press, June 13, 2001 NEW YORK (AP) — Many foreign workers granted special visas to be household employees in the United States endure…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Snakehead Lawyer, Wife Plead Guilty By Robert Gearty, Daily News Staff WriterOriginally published in the New York Daily News, February 12, 2002 A Chinatown lawyer and his pregnant wife pleaded guilty yesterday to helping notorious smugglers known as…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Botswanan Domestic Sues UN Diplomat for ‘Involuntary Servitude’ By Chisun Lee, Village Voice WriterOriginally published in the Village Voice, July 25 – 31, 2001 She considered showing up in disguise. But in the end, Keabetswe Letsididi decided she…

 PRINTABLE PAGE Trouble on the Home Front 24-Hour Domestic Sues Upper East Side Bosses By Chisun Lee, Village Voice WriterOriginally published in The Village Voice, July 11-17, 2001 Imagine getting two dollars an hour for “dusting the furniture and windows,…