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America, the land where dreams come true. People from all over the world dream of coming to this country, we are the land of the free and the home of the brave, and everyone in most inferior countries holds us on a pedestal. This country was built by immigrants and that still applies today. Immigrants do all of the jobs that need to be done, by they are so dirty, difficult and miniscule that most normal Americans wouldn’t feel comfortable doing them, and that is where immigrants come into play. As we saw today in Maid in America many women from other countries mainly, Latin, Eastern European and Asian are brought to America for various work, may it be cleaning, child care, or factory work. They don’t make a ton of money, but even they admit that as little as they make here, it is still a much larger amount then they would be making in their home countries. Unfortunately where there is a potential for large profits, and weak people in vulnerable and desperate positions, there will always be someone right there to take advantage of them, their trusting nature, and mainly their desperation.  The situation usually goes something like this; they take a woman from a small poor village and promise her some kind of lucrative factory or restaurant work in a more industrialized country. Once they bring her over they say she owes them thousands of dollars in fees and basically hold her in bondage until she pays. A lot of the time they will force the women into some form of either domestic or sexual slavery, working long hours in dangerous conditions for very little or absolutely no pay. The clip I am including is an example of one of these scenarios. Lies and Deceit!