.Actually, I am in a position to investigate the situation. I'm under-employed (hee!), well-versed in community politics and the legal field, and I've got some old school connections. I don't think any of these girls are involved in anything criminal or exploitation on the scale of "slave trade" (five to a condo sounds like the dorm I pay $4000 a semester for) -- I'm just concerned that they might be taken advantage of or that they might simply be treated what I consider poorly. I take southern hospitality seriously, and I wish there was some agency with a program to at least minimally integrate and educate foreign workers into and about our community so that they have some resourses and recourse.
The attitude that because exploitation of foreign workers has been going on for years on the Gulf Coast is a reason to not get involved in something you are worried might be amiss bothers me. SneakyPete, feeling the way you do about what you observed, I would hope you would keep an eye out for these young foreigners who very well may not have had much of an idea as to what they were getting into. (Who knows what they were told, promised, signed?) Hopefully you will find things above board and that employer, students, and "supplier" will all benefit.
Thank you for caring and being willing to stick your neck out!
Many of us look the other way too often, when sometimes we actually could do something.
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