1. 10 Are Charged With Smuggling Of Immigrants.
- Author
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Kelley, Tina
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HUMAN smuggling , *FORCED labor , *WOMEN undocumented immigrants , *SLAVE labor , *EXPLOITATION of humans , *ACTIONS & defenses (Law) - Abstract
Reports a federal indictment in New Jersey accuses eight women and two men of participating in a smuggling ring that brought females from Honduras to the United States. Charges against the ten for conspiracy to commit forced labor offenses, alien smuggling, and harboring illegal aliens; How Honduran women were recruited for slave labor and abused; Comment from the federal prosecutor, Christopher J. Christie; The names listed in the indictment, including the ringleader Luisa Medrano, a naturalized citizen who is from El Salvador.
- Published
- 2005