How To Eradicate Forced Labour

When we pick out our tomatoes from our local supermarket, we don’t think twice of who brought them to us. If we were asked to visualize the person who delivered our tomatoes, we’d picture the tall, tanned man dressed in denim with a bright smile from the commercials and advertisements we see everyday. It would be very absurd to picture an enslaved immigrant worker in the fields for twelve to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week whose life and the lives of his family are threatened if he refuses to work. Many would ask, “Wouldn 't that be considered slavery?”, the cold hard truth is that forced agricultural labour still occurs to this day. In textbooks across the United States, students are still taught that slavery ended with the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865, however 149 years have passed and that is more then enough time to realized a call to action must be heard. There should …show more content…
In today’s time a simple piece of paper classified as an amendment simply won’t do it. Thankfully Chrissey Buckley has an answer for this question in his article Forced Labor in the United States: A Contemporary Problem in Need of a Contemporary Solution. Buckley states that United States immigration laws that indirectly add to the problem of forced labor must be fixed. To cease workers from falling victim to forced labor, increased opportunities must be made for regularized migration and visa requirements for foreign workers so they’ll be allowed to change employers. The United States government also have an important role in the fight to end slavery and should increase legal protections of all workers and the monitoring of working conditions in agriculture, domestic labor, and manufacturing sectors (3). Chrissey Buckley makes very valid points but if the citizens of the United States don’t work together to address it, his points will be nothing more than an article full of