Lilian Calles Barger

A job an American won’t take

January 29, 2008 @ 11:34 am | Category: social justice, politics

Check out this story about the abuse of a domestic servant. This a why we need to know who is in the country. We can’t protect people we don’t know are here. Women, I suspect, are more hidden than the day laborers standing on the street corner.

One Response to “A job an American won’t take”

  1. Sherri Edman Says:

    “This a why we need to know who is in the country. We can’t protect people we don’t know are here.”

    I have never heard it put so succinctly. Amen.

    I’m horrified by the stories I hear of brothels populated by women and children trafficked into the US from other countries and held in sexual slavery here. But I wonder how many invisible slaves are hidden in private homes like the one in this story?

    And, I confess, every time we drive past the Saudi embassy in DC, I wonder how many women are enslaved there behind the walls of diplomatic immunity.

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