Trafficking Troubles Tip of Contracting Iceberg
by Austin on January 16, 2007
The outsourcing of war duties has created a lucrative new market for human traffickers. A host of activities that used to be considered the sole domain of the federal government has been hired out to private contractors. Private US citizens are conducting interrogations, intelligence gathering and analysis here in the United States and abroad. Critical security functions around the world are carried out by US-based corporations responsible for war duties previously performed by the military. And many Americans would be surprised to know that economic migrants from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh and Nepal are cooking and serving food to US troops in Iraq. Some of them were tricked into the situation through false promises of high-paying jobs in Jordan, but instead their papers were confiscated, they were shipped to Iraq and forced to work on US military bases. US taxpayers footed the bill, and human traffickers profited.
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