Glenn Beck compares illegal immigration to slavery

To slavery? That is what we are. Think about it.

A lot of illegal immigrants are virtual slaves. They are smuggled in and taken to corporations like meat packing plants and slaughterhouses. They don't speak the language and have no way of getting back except with extreme difficulty. They are paid what the employer wants to pay them and their work is long hours in dangerous conditions. The women are frequently subjected to sexual harassment of the worst kind. It is a kind of slavery. Read Fast Food Nation. You will see.

Yes, they voluntarily come and often pay huge sums to come. But they are not given what they signed up for.

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Glenn who?

Well if you were with the regular working people of the world you would see how it is a modern day slavery. These people work for some landscape companies, they toil and they have someone standing over them doing nothing. (I have seen this) The landscape company does not pay these illegals anything. Will they complain?? Hell no. My mom who was 80 years old at the time, when a builder was working with illegals, she noticed the boss over these workers was on a tractor while the laborers were toiling using shovels and he was yelling at them (suppose they didn't know the language) she went out to the boss and told him he should get his ass off the tractor and let one of them use it. I'm not for illegals coming in over the boarder, and Glenn is right. They are abused, they are slaves.

but the workers also have to fear INS, something legal workers don't have to worry about their bosses holding over them. It's at least a special class that's made possible by the exploitability inherent in their under the table status, a situation employers aren't going to give up.

Beck is a New World Order stooge.

From what I have read, its more like a type of quasi-slavery for many illegal aliens. In too many situations, the illegal aliens get treated more poorly than legal workers, because their boss knows that if the illegals complain about being worked too hard and abused, the boss can threaten to call la migra on them to have them deported to keep them quiet and stop complaints. So, if the illegal alien cannot speak english and cannot find better work anywhere else, he may feel trapped there, with the only option to go back to his own country, or stay there and work under bad working conditions. For example, the illegal alien may get payed half or less what a legal worker is paid, they may be forced to work longer hours without lunch breaks or bathroom breaks, get no workman's comp if they get injured on the job, no sick days, no vacation days, no insurance or any other worker benfits.
Sure, the illegal alien has the option to walk out and quit if condition are that bad(unless the boss has threatened to call la migra on them if they quit in which case they might feel even more like a slave and trapped there), but if they cannot speak english and cannot find a better job and don't want to go back to their own country where they make much less money, then its understandable they might feel trapped there and feel like a quasi-slave.
If laws were enforced adequately like Ron Paul advocates, this would cause most illegal aliens to leave the country, and far fewer would try to enter each year, and it would be far less of a problem, illegal aliens being mistreated, abused and threatened by employers(I realize legal workers can and do get mistreated and abused too, since it has happened to me in the past, but I and other workers we knew our rights and we had the courage and were able to stand up to the boss, even though we knew she would get very angry and might try to fire us, and get her to back down and realize she cannot break the law by mistreating and abusing workers to make more money). Legal workers cannot be threatened in the same way the illegal alien workers can, they cannot be threatened with deportation, because they usually know their rights, they can usually speak english, and they have much more job opportunities open to them than illegal aliens do.
I blame the government mostly. Since they only make token efforts at enforcing laws against illegal immigration, it entices millions to enter illegally because they feel chances are low that they will get caught and deported. If laws were adequately enforced, far fewer would bother trying to enter illegally and instead they would work on either improving conditions in their own country or coming here legally, along with the millions of other who are waiting to come here legally.
Here are a few links on the subject
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/hp/content/moderndayslavery/ind...
http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2007/01/22/th...
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty71.htm