Mexico charges 3 in US forced-labor scheme

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1014420〈=eng_news

Associated Press
2009-07-27 04:36 AM

Mexico has filed organized crime and migrant-trafficking charges against two men and a woman for allegedly luring migrants with promises of jobs in the United States and then forcing them to work there without pay.

The Attorney General's Office says the three recruited would-be migrants in a farming area of central Guanajuato state.

The office says workers signed three-year contracts and IOUs for 3,500 pesos (US$265). After they reached the U.S., a gang allegedly forced them with physical and psychological abuse and threats to work without pay.

The suspects were detained in April. The Sunday statement did not say where in the U.S. the forced-labor scam had operated.