Labor Trafficking of Chinese to the U.S. and Other countries

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/12/taiwan-arrests-more-than-40-people-in-human-trafficking-ring-that-sent-migrants-to-canada-australia/

Taiwan arrests more than 40 people in human trafficking ring that sent migrants to Canada, Australia

The Canadian Press  Jul 12, 2012 – 9:48 AM ET

Andy Clark / Reuters files

A family is escorted off the MV Sun Sea after they and an estimated 490 suspected Tamil refugees arrived on a cargo ship at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in Colwood, British Columbia on Vancouver Island in 2010. Authorities intercepted and boarded the ship after it entered Canadian waters after sailing from Sri Lanka. 

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Officials in Taiwan have arrested more than 40 people in a human trafficking ring that may have sent hundreds of Chinese nationals into Canada and Australia.
A report on the Taipei Times newspaper website says the lucrative operation was allegedly run by Chinese national Wang Cheng-wei, who was arrested in February.
Since Wang’s arrest, Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency reportedly cracked multiple cases of human smuggling by working with authorities in Canada and Australia.

According to Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency, the smugglers would buy Chinese passports for people from Fujian Province and add their photos to the documents.
The report says the smugglers conducted more than 50 successful operations, smuggling one to four Chinese per trip.
Canada has launched an ambitious international effort to prevent smugglers from reaching its shores.
In 2009, the MV Ocean Lady brought 76 Tamil migrants to British Columbia, and the MV Sun Sea brought 492 a year later.
The Harper government has offered financial assistance to help foreign countries like Thailand to crack down on human smuggling rings.
The government has also introduced a tough new immigration bill that targets the gangs.

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Most labor trafficking victims you will see in the restaurants in the U.S. are Fujanese. Though the report says that the Fujanese are smuggled into Canada and the Australia, based on the past cases, traffickers and smugglers often use Canada's weak immigration regulation to smuggle and traffic the victims into the U.S.

Fujanese are subject to migrant smuggling and trafficking in developing countries in Europe, North America, and Australia. Fujanese are historically and culturally discriminated within the Chinese providence among many ethnic groups in China.


Traffickers and smugglers use countries with weak immigration legislation to transport victims and migrant workers to the U.S.


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