Here's a good article that points out just how compassionate these conservatives are. This has been the situation from day 1. It's no wonder Castro threw out those who were pillaging Cuba. The hypocrisy of these conservatives is simply stunning.
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Stranger Than Paradise
How Tom DeLay's deregulatory ideology stretched to the island of Saipan
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On arrival in Saipan some workers found that their contracts were worthless. They were told their employer had gone bankrupt. Day laborers who had thought they were going to be security guards piled on top of each other at night in one-room hovels and explored ideas like selling their kidneys to raise enough money to go home. Saipan became a fixture of the booming global sex trade. Young Chinese women recruited for restaurant jobs were ordered to work in karaoke and topless bars where managers told them they had to drink and have sex with customers. They received no pay for this coerced prostitution. The so-called bar fines for their services went to their employers.
Even officials in the laissez-faire administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush the Elder were alarmed. In 1986 the Interior Department of the Reagan administration voiced concerns that the economy, culture, and legal system of the native islanders were buckling under the strain of the mass influx of foreign workers, and proposed an immigration cap to keep the once-pristine island from turning into an industrial slum.
FOR THE FULL ARTICLE, SEE:
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1743
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