These are brave people who exposed a terrible crime. Yet how are they treated? For the past 2 months they have been held in a motel in Queens while Immigration officials decide their fate. I am offering an amendment today that will bar the Immigration and Naturalization Service from using its funds to deport the victims of these terrible crimes. Let me be perfectly clear: These people were brought to this country. they were tortured and beaten. they were enslaved because their abusers thought their victims would keep silent out of fear of reprisals. My amendment will put this Nation on notice that we will no longer tolerate the abuse of the vulnerable. If this amendment fails to pass. what message is this Congress sending to the country? That you can smuggle people Into this country. enslave them. beat them. make a fortune with their labor. and you know if they turn you in. they will be deported? What a great deal for the owners of sweatshops. What a terrible deal for the victims.
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