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Article

1 Jul 2002

Author:
Jim Lobe, OneWorld US

New York Forced Labor Marks First for U.S. Trafficking Law

...In an indictment issued late last month, the United States attorney in Buffalo charged that the six contractors [who contract migrant labor for farmers] transported and held several dozens of migrants whom they recruited in Arizona in illegal and unsafe conditions and forced them to work to repay more than $1,000 each for the cost of their transportation, food, rent, and utilities.