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Investigators Equate South Georgia Human Trafficking Ring to Slavery
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6:47Now PlayingA group of 24 business owners, labor contractors and recruiters in south Georgia have been named in a federal indictment alleging that they participated in a years-long human trafficking ring that investigators equated to modern-day slavery.
The defendants are accused of forcing Mexican and Central American migrant workers to dig for crops bare-handed at gunpoint. They allegedly paid the laborers 20 cents per bucket of crops.
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