The Exploitation Paradox: Yet Another Immigration-enslavement Story
Akouavi Kpade Afolabi brought 20 women and girls as young as 10 to the U.S. on fraudulent visas, holding them in virtual slavery and stealing their money. Afolabi's lawyer "said what the U.S. government called slave-like supervision was merely a West African custom of protecting young girls by making sure they were tightly supervised, especially in a foreign country where they didn't know the customs or the language."