21st Century Slavery; In FL, "Shocked I Tell You"

From Coalition for Immolakee Workers Top Stories 3 September 2010:

[Recipe for Slavery: Take US farm labor relations, add "guestworker" visas, and voila... Forced labor!

Federal prosecutors in Honolulu unseal indictment charging forced labor ring active in 13 states including -- yet again -- Florida;

Multi-state operation involves guestworker recruiting giant Global Horizons in what prosecutors are calling "the largest human trafficking case in US history"...

Labor Day weekend will be celebrated with a little more meaning this year by 400 farmworkers from around the country whose bosses were charged yesterday by Justice Department officials in Hawaii with "conspiracy to commit human trafficking."

Six people in the US were charged in the case, including four employees of Global Horizons Manpower, Inc, a labor recruiting company that specializes in the overseas recruitment of "guestworkers," foreign workers brought to the US to work in agriculture under an H2A visa for temporary employment in agriculture. Two more people based in Thailand were also indicted in the case. This is not the first time that Global Horizons has been accused of violating farm labor protection laws.

FBI Special Agent Tom Simon described the latest case to KITV News in Hawaii, where the indictment was filed:]

United Farms Workers

Who hid MY blogging knife?  Great Cesar's ghost, gotta blog something to make me smile.  So much outrage; How I wish 't'were satire.