Many of us know of slavery in other impoverished countries and cultures still being very much active. We know that slavery was put to an end many years ago in the United States right? Wrong. There is modern day slavery is hidden in the depths of our country. We consume products of such actions on a daily basis. Does this mean that was as the consumer should boycott the companies, Or should we find another way to help the enslaved become free? A condition equated to that of a slave is a form of exhausting labor or restricted freedom. This condition is big reason as to how the Immokalee workers lives were those of people who can and will be classified as slaves. The Immokalee workers were smuggled into the country for work with an extensive debit attached to them just for that ride and little did they know that it’s a debit that allows their bosses to once twirl their lives around their fingers like a cheap keychain.
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The Immokalee workers were forced to work with an unpayable debit attached to their lives before they even began to work, just as a price to be smuggled in the country to work. They were also threatened with their lives and the lives of their loved ones back home in Mexico they were threatened in crude manners as mentioned in John Bowe’s Passage titled “Nobodies” he states that a former Immokalee worker recalls being told by one of the supervising goons for the bosses that “If you want to leave, go ahead. But I’ll call the bosses, and they’ll feed you to the alligators.” (5). this is a direct threat to their lives. They came to America to try and better their lives however when they show up they end up away from family and with a threat on their lives and on their families
The Immokalee workers were forced to work with an unpayable debit attached to their lives before they even began to work, just as a price to be smuggled in the country to work. They were also threatened with their lives and the lives of their loved ones back home in Mexico they were threatened in crude manners as mentioned in John Bowe’s Passage titled “Nobodies” he states that a former Immokalee worker recalls being told by one of the supervising goons for the bosses that “If you want to leave, go ahead. But I’ll call the bosses, and they’ll feed you to the alligators.” (5). this is a direct threat to their lives. They came to America to try and better their lives however when they show up they end up away from family and with a threat on their lives and on their families