As the country’s immigration system was being overwhelmed by an unprecedented flow of unaccompanied children fleeing unrest in Central America, one of their countrymen orchestrated the scheme to force them to work on egg farms in Ohio, prosecutors said.
Arodolo Rigoberto Castillo-Serrano pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Cleveland to single counts of forced labor conspiracy, forced labor, witness tampering and encouraging illegal entry into the country. His sentencing date is to be set.
Castillo-Serrano, a 33-year-old Guatemalan, has been in the U.S. illegally for much of the past decade, prosecutors say. In some cases, prosecutors say, he made victims’ family members sign over deeds to their property in Guatemala to pay for transporting the boys, with assurances they would be enrolled in school here. That never happened.
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Send to whole dam bunch back to where they came from. If they come back or even try PRISON
1st time rentry 5yrs no parole, no probation, each subsequent entry the sentence doubles with no parole, no probation. I bet after second crossing they will not try a third!
Prison will only work if you bring back the chain gangs. For most of them prison is an improvement.
Putting them to work digging the foundation of a wall on the border, would be a deterrent as well. If they try to escape northward, shoot the escaping inmate. If he heads south of the border, let him go...the first time.
Well at least they found work.
I'd have to see teens actually working to believe any of this.
What's the big complaint, could have been forced into sex work.
Human trafficking is a global problem. I'm glad this guy was caught and hope he serves the maximum sentence possible. People don't want to believe it happens in the US but it does; and it's allowed to continue because of callous attitudes towards the victims of human trafficking as demonstrated above.
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