Chicago Massage Parlors: Human Rights Day: FBI agent offers ways to stop human trafficking

Even in Indiana, Americans are used to seeing seasonal migrant workers come in to work at farms harvesting vegetables and fruits and doing labor that is too exhaustive, tedious or low-paying for U.S. citizens. But even though those migrant workers are sometimes found to live in horrendous conditions, Prendergast said, they are voluntary workers and many of them send a portion of their pay to their native countries to help other relatives.
There have been cases, however, where migrant workers are actually “slaves” who have paid their way to be illegally smuggled into the U.S. and now are working off their debt by earning wages for the human trafficker.
In another recent case, a sex ring was uncovered at a northern Indiana massage parlor operation that extended to several affluent cities. While each business seemed harmless in practice, and did offer massages, it also offered sex services for an extra fee.

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