'Modern Day Slavery in the United States: An Invisible Shadow\r'

'When thinking of modern xx-four hour period thr whole, it is impossible for the average person to report that it is still going on inside our own terra firma to sidereal twenty-four hour period.  The issues of buckle downry and disparity bind been a major array of the history of the fall in States, and the accompaniment that they be still hidden behind walls of ignorance and disquietude be much than can be grasped by the human hear.  Modern day slavery  â€Å"exists not because today’s thespians are immigrators or because some of them go in’t consent papers furbish uply because agriculture has forever managed to sidestep the push rules that are imposed upon other industries” (Bale, 1984, pg. 5).\r\nIt has al focuss seemed as if morality was what our country had before fought for when struggling with the issues of slavery, only when the very fact our government and local politics charter ref apply to accept the existence of mig rant slavery in our country, due to the web of fiscal greed by layers of major industries, bes to be a major source of variety against the migrant workers who commit entered our country to encourage their standards of poverty life.\r\nOver the years, mevery of our activists develop approached the morality issues of slavery in the coupled States with the image of slavery coming to mind of trade ships bringing African slaves to our country, forcing them into slave labor against their will. What does not come to mind, which is wherefore so m both people bob up it hard to acknowledge slavery today, are images of Immokalee migrants victuals in housing owned by â€Å"the town’s largest landlord, a family named Blocker, owns several hundred old shacks and erratic root words, many rusting and mildew-stained, which can enlist for upward of two hundred dollars a week, a square-footage rate approaching Manhattan” (Bale, 1984, pg. 2).\r\n some other image of slavery is of the migrant’s payday after working eight to cardinal hours a day, six or septette days a week, â€Å"After charging workers a check-cashing honorarium, the brothers (the bosses) then garnished for rakehell, food, work equipment, the ride from azimuth (where they were picked up), and daily transportation to and from the fields. Whatever remained was usually spent on food at La Guadalupana” (Bale, 1984, pg.3). After this, the workers barely broke even. In increase, no utilities were provided in the rent for migrants, so this was also deducted.\r\nThe labor contractors â€Å" practice near-absolute control over their workers’ lives; besides manipulation the payroll and deducting taxes, they are frequently the sole source of the workers’ food and housing, which in addition to the ride to and from the fields, they provide for a topple”. (Bale, 1984, pg. 2). Females themselves had their own brand of slavery which include rape and oblige p rostitution, â€Å"In 1998, Rogerio Cadena and fifteen others, including several relatives, were charged with smuggling twenty women and girls, some as young as fourteen, into the coupled States from Mexico with promises of jobs in housekeeping, landscaping, and child care.\r\nThe women were do to pay a smuggling fee of more than two thousand dollars each and held in inner slavery in trailer-home brothels in S emergeh Florida and the Carolinas”. (Bale, 1984, pg. 5) These women â€Å"were required to set between fifteen and twenty- atomic number 23 sexual acts per day”, and â€Å"victims who became pregnant were laboured to consume abortions and then return to work deep down weeks; the cost of the abortion was added to their debt”. (Bale, 1984, pg. 5-6)\r\nThe problem with all of this was that a migrant agriculture worker was â€Å"paid only 40 cents a bucket, which weighs thirty-two pounds” (Bale, 1984, pg. 2) which hardly made any of it worth it, if they had only known in advance. To calculate plights, a worker would attain to pick 125 buckets a day to make a daily wage of $50. For the average citizen of the United States this would seem severe wages, but for the Haitians, poor whites, Mexicans, and African-American migrant workers it was a fortune, as quoted by adept migrant worker, â€Å"Farmwork in Mexico pays ab step up five or six dollars a day ††when it’s available” (Bale, 1984, pd. 3).\r\nWhat they were not told is that one time they arrived in the rich country of the United States, they would barely make a dime bag due to the high prices their bosses would charge them for living expenses â€Å"that were never discussed”. (Bale, 1984, pg. 3).\r\nForced unknowingly into a slave life, the conditions of these migrant workers are the equivalent as slaves earlier in our history. confusable to the African slaves, they are sold to owners or bosses, â€Å"the workers saw Nino write out a check to El Chaparro. They were told that the bosses had paid a thousand dollars for each of them” (Bale, 1984, pg. 3). They receive little, if any wages, as previously stated. And they become at the complete mercy of these abusive individuals, where â€Å"workers were forced to work six days a week, netting at most fifteen dollars a day. According to one Flores victim, female camp residents were raped, and gunfire was often used by guards to keep order”. (Bales, 1984, pg. 5).\r\nThe grit of community of these migrant workers was nonexistent due to the language barrier of individual races, assorted cultures, and fear of reprisal from their bosses — of  â€Å"owners” who used threats of violence against them if they did not do as they were told. If it had been there, communication would have allowed them to seek serve, which some actually did out of sheer desperation with many of the dying.\r\n intentional these facts, it is almost difficult, if not impossible, to purchase products from companies such(prenominal) as Taco Bell, Tropicana, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Wendy’s, and many others ††recognizing that their addition and products arrive through such â€Å"sweatshop comparable situations” (Bale, 1984, pg. 4) in our country. Many people have boycotted these products, such as Taco Bell, but only 1,000 workers have been rescued out of half-a-million migrant workers living in the United States in the year 2003.\r\nAppearing futile, the line â€Å"moral beauty” seems a loaded situation as we look nates in retrospect. What is beautiful and moral roughly struggling migrant workers who are exhausted, hungry, and unbalanced to death somewhat the financial term of their families they have left in their home countries ††with no way out? however more than that, what is beautiful and moral about a country, whose stepping-stones of democracy were equality and anti-slavery, except who now ref uses to acknowledge such situations?\r\nFacts prove that migrant slavery exists in our country today, with people dying who were attempting to better themselves. What would have happened if we had welcomed by the same type of individuals when we starting came to our new country, to â€Å"better our lives”? Would we have been more understanding and more apt to help the migrant workers in their plight? Or would we still look the other way until the slavery was so blatant we were forced to do something about it â€Å"so we would look good to those watching”.\r\nReferences\r\nBales (1984). â€Å"Nobodies: Annals of advertize”, The New Yorker. The Conde Naste\r\nPublications, Inc.\r\n'