People's Daily Bell: The United States is the forced labor and disaster -stricken area

The so -called "Uyghur forced Labor Prevention Law" in the United States has an excuse. The excuse is that Xinjiang, which is manufactured in Xinjiang, has a so -called "forced labor" and other lies. However, no matter how the United States attacked to discredit other countries, it couldn't wash itself. History and reality show that the United States under the shroud of slavery and racism is the hardest hit area forced labor.

Forced labor is a tumor rooted in the history and social reality of the United States. From the "Declaration of Liberation Black Slave" from the founding of the United States to 1862 in 1776, slavery continued for more than 80 years in the United States, accounting for one -third of its history since its establishment. Back to the European colonial era, between 1514 and 1866, at least 36,000 "slave trafficking teams" sold millions of black slaves to the United States. The journal of Berkeley Business Review pointed out that American history is largely intertwined with forced labor. Even in today's United States, from farm to prison, from clothing to electronic products, you can find traces of forced labor. The website of Denver University disclosed that at least 500,000 people in the United States live under modern slavery and have been forced to work. It is particularly prominent in 23 industries including housekeeping, agricultural planting, tourism sales, catering industry, medical and cosmetic services. In the United States with deep bone marrows in the "White Movement" concept, forcing people to engage in slave labor and deep -rooted discrimination against colored people have been intertwined for a long time. Hundreds of thousands of modern slaves in the United States are still mainly colored races.

The United States often deducts the hat of "forced labor" in other countries, but this hat is actually the most suitable in the United States. Not long ago, the death of immigrants in Texas, the United States, shocked the world. At least 53 people were trapped by the traffic gang to the United States and died in a large truck cargo. This case is only the tip of the iceberg of the United States' serious population trafficking and forced labor. According to the U.S. State Department estimates, there are more than 100,000 people who sell from overseas to the United States every year. The "2021 Federal Population Trafficking Report" recently released by the American Institute of Trafficking shows that 64%of the victims of the population trafficking cases tried in the United States in 2021 were sexual trafficking victims, 36%were forced labor victims, and minors accounted for their accommodation. 57%of the victims, of which 93%of the victims were traveled to the United States for foreigners. About half of these forced labor victims were trafficking to the "hard -sweat factory" or suffered family slavery.

The US government's dereliction of duty and malfeasance provides soil for the long -term spread of forced labor. At the institutional level, three important international legal documents such as forced Labor Convention, which are directly related to forced labor issues, have not been approved by the United States. At the level of law enforcement, the research report of the Human Rights Center of the University of California Berkeley pointed out that the U.S. government has no responsibility to fight forced labor, which leads to a large number of criminal suspects. The responsibility shall be passed to the victim's individual shall be borne by the government. There are still about 500,000 children's workers in the United States to work in farms, and international labor organizations have expressed concern about the serious work injury of children's farm workers for many years.

The U.S. government even acts as a direct pusher of forced labor, which is particularly prominent in the US prison system. The US "ending modern slavery" website pointed out that the United States is the country with the largest number of prisoners in the world. U.S. law allows to implement forced labor on prison prisoners. Prisoners are not protected by the law of US labor rights. American prisons are tantamount to "modern slave factories". Essence According to the British "Guardian", 150 prisoners in a prison in Kansas have to go to work in a local candy factory every day. Their salary they get is much lower than normal workers, and they have to deduct the car oil money from prison and factory. What's more, since the epidemic in the new crown pneumonia, most states in the United States forced prisoners to deal with medical waste, metastasis infection and corpses, etc., and the hourly salary is only 8 cents to $ 1, and does not provide effective protection measures.

U.S. politicians talk about "human rights", and it has never been to truly promote human rights. Otherwise, the United States will not be "forced to labor sources, transit countries, and destination countries." The United States should deeply reflect on its serious and universal human rights issues, and take out a practical action to make up for the human rights deficit of the country. The obsession with the guise of human rights to curb the development of other countries, but it is disappeared to the human rights issues of the country. It will only allow the United States to fall into the "human rights trap" that the United States has dug.

Source: People's Daily

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