Now. what is wrong with that? Well. lets talk about what is going on in Malaysia. where American companies in this country and American workers will have to compete as part of the TPP. Well. it turns out that many of the workers at the electronics plants in Malaysia are immigrants to that country and are forced to work there under subhuman working conditions. According to Verite. which conducted a 2year investigation into labor abuses in Malaysia. which was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Laborthis report was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor. This report tells us that 32 percent of the electronics industries nearly 200.000 migrant workers in Malaysia were employed in forced situations because their passports had been taken away or because they were straining to pay back illegally high recruitment fees. According to the New York Times article commenting on the study. 92 percent of the migrant workers in Malaysias electronics industries had paid recruitment fees. and 92 percent of that group had paid fees that exceeded legal or industry standards defined as more than one months wages. Ninetyfour percent of the migrants did not have their passports when Verites investigators interviewed them. Let me repeat that. The passports were taken away from 94 percent of the people whom these investigators interviewed. Now. if you are a migrant in a foreign country and your passport is taken away. you have no rights at all. You cant leave. You may not be able to travel.
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