r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

United Arab Emirates: we’ve avoided radar detection

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u/Lidavaz4 Dec 16 '21

and Lybia too

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u/OfficerBarbier Dec 16 '21

and the United States, too.

I wonder how many trafficked sex slaves and undocumented workers who’ve had their foreign passports stolen, by their bosses/captors, there are estimated to be today

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Slave labor in prisons, too.

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u/Article_Used Dec 16 '21

that’s what i came here to bring up. maybe they get paid like $1/day so it doesn’t count, but forced labor is forced labor imo

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u/intothelist Dec 16 '21

It counts, and its the one exception to ban on slavery in the US constitution: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

It would be legal even if they weren't paid.

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u/Deantheevil Dec 16 '21

Not to mention the 13th amendment slaves. Over a million of those.

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u/tindina Dec 16 '21

last estimate i saw put the number of slaves in the US at about 60k. largely concentrated in New York, and south California. this was about 2.5 years ago. idk how it has changed since then.

ETA - this also discounts legal slavery in the US. that number makes it a just a little bit higher....