re: #143 Vicious Babushka

Slave owners fed, housed and clothed their little slavelings.

Speaking of which - here on Long Island, DoJ and Homeland Security raided 14 7-11 stores and arrested the owners on charges of human trafficking and ID theft.

More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system,” prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers.

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Through the scheme, the defendants, who as franchisees for the parent company were licensed to use 7-Eleven buildings, trademarks and Slurpee and hot dog machines, recruited more than 50 illegal immigrants and gave them identities stolen from American citizens, including children and dead people.

The employees worked for 100 hours a week but were paid for a fraction of that time, and were forced to live in substandard housing owned by the operators of the convenience stores, the authorities said.

The 7-11 around the corner from my house was among the stores that were seized. I’d always thought that something was weird, because the whole crew that worked at the store lived in a house directly across the street, and I’d go into the store in the morning and then late at night, and the same guys would be behind the registers.

Those owners are in a world of hurt, as they should be. And I’m assuming the counter staff is already on their way back to Pakistan.

It kind of sucks to think I’ve been tacitly supporting human trafficking for the past ten years.