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This is why the country has gone to hell. Look at all the so-called "journalists" in the response who took her story at face value without a simple google search.

A google search reveals a much more cynical and less sympathetic story for her parents. https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/1263208982614814722">https://twitter.com/jiatolent...

https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/1263208982614814722

So, I did go in and check her parents& #39; case and here are some highlights.

On top of this... can a teacher afford this? How much does a teacher make? $35K

If they took half of her salary and $6k on top of it!

It& #39;s amazing how uncritical all the blue-checks in the response are!

Extortion.

And @jiatolentino could have handled this differently. Journalist Alexander Tizon wrote an expose where he was honest. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...

My Family’s Slave

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

And yet another lie!

All of the charges were upheld in a preliminary hearing... In the end, her dad decided to plea out in exchange for a lesser charge. https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/1263484058354487297?s=20">https://twitter.com/jiatolent...

https://twitter.com/jiatolentino/status/1263484058354487297?s=20

Finally, the teacher& #39;s side https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/editorials/2013/06/11/your-child-teacher-victim-human-trafficking/dQz2fYPwg6Xkgt1aV6HaiL/story.html%3foutputType=amp">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...

Teacher trafficking - The Boston Globe

More than 60,000 H-1B visas for public school teachers have been approved since 2001, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services data. Most arrive in the United States deep in debt, after...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/editorials/2013/06/11/your-child-teacher-victim-human-trafficking/dQz2fYPwg6Xkgt1aV6HaiL/story.html%3foutputType=amp

And this offers more on the teacher& #39;s side of the story https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16738/trafficked_teachers_neoliberalisms_latest_globalized_labor_source">https://inthesetimes.com/working/e...

Trafficked Teachers: Neoliberalism’s Latest Labor Source

Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers' rights.

https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/16738/trafficked_teachers_neoliberalisms_latest_globalized_labor_source

Now extrapolate this behavior to every piece of news you hear....

*shudders*

Many people come to terms with having parents and grandparents do horrible stuff without lying about it. https://www.salon.com/2018/12/30/best-of-2018-my-grandfather-wasnt-a-nazi-fighting-war-hero-he-was-a-brutal-collaborator/">https://www.salon.com/2018/12/3...

Best of 2018: My grandfather wasn't a Nazi-fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator

A deathbed promise led to me discovering his complicity in the Holocaust — and what it means beyond my family

https://www.salon.com/2018/12/30/best-of-2018-my-grandfather-wasnt-a-nazi-fighting-war-hero-he-was-a-brutal-collaborator/

The teachers were starved!!!!

Another lie! Her parents didn& #39;t get a mistrial cause the jury could not come up with a verdict after deliberation.

The jury was dismissed prior to deliberation.

This is such a common migration pattern that the UN had multiple hearings and is now offering guidelines on how recruiting agencies are often responsible for human trafficking.

For more information: https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/2015/Recruitment_Fees_Report-Final-22_June_2015_AG_Final.pdf">https://www.unodc.org/documents...

Manila Times reported it in 2004 https://www.manilatimes.net/2004/11/25/news/top-stories/ring-smuggling-filipino-teachers-into-us-busted/683808/">https://www.manilatimes.net/2004/11/2...

Ring smuggling Filipino teachers into US busted – The Manila Times

DALLAS—Federal authorities said they have uncovered a scheme to lure Filipino teachers to the United States with false promises of jobs in Texas school districts, charging five people with conspiracy...

https://www.manilatimes.net/2004/11/25/news/top-stories/ring-smuggling-filipino-teachers-into-us-busted/683808/

How do we transfer this logic over to her parents?

Written in 2012 about her Venice Trip https://medium.com/the-billfold/venice-on-silence-and-three-euro-a-day-41f5765c202c">https://medium.com/the-billf...

Venice on Silence And Three Euro a Day

Five summers ago, I was nineteen and living alone in Venice in an enormous grain factory-cum-hostel on the long, lonely borough called the Giudecca. This was a place bunking twenty people to a damp…

https://medium.com/the-billfold/venice-on-silence-and-three-euro-a-day-41f5765c202c

The ending of her blog is extra disgusting.

This is another case. This lady was also from the Philippines. Notice how her traffickers called ICE on her.

Her traffickers are never ICE target.

Here is the memo the DOJ attorney wrote prior to prosecution.

That& #39;s a lot of money from poor teachers

If anyone is having trouble sleeping, check all the civil cases where Omni has been sued.

The grandmother is a US citizen. Dad is a Canadian citizen. Other people have been abused by ICE, but using ICE as a cover when we all know that said parties have called ICE on non-compliant people... is purely disgusting.

Her dad went to NYU.

This is what her dad and grandma pled guilty to and what he pled guilty to contradicts her whitewashing statement.

Her dad and grandma knew that there were no jobs and 8 days later, they still manufactured fake contracts for teachers in the Philippines.

Again, her parents KNEW that the teachers didn& #39;t have jobs before they left the Philippines yet they decided to bring them in.... why?

Cause they charged usurious loans for these poor teachers.

And of course we don& #39;t know what kind of families they had to leave behind in the Philippines.

(This is an example of a migrant worker)

Here is an example of a deceptive re recruitment ad used by the parents corporation https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/nation/2002/09/19/176577/us-state-texas-recruiting-800-filipino-teachers/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...

US state of Texas recruiting 800 Filipino teachers

Some 800 Filipino teachers are now being recruited for the US state of Texas alone. Filipinos currently rank among the highest in Americas search and recruitment of grade school and high school...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/nation/2002/09/19/176577/us-state-texas-recruiting-800-filipino-teachers/amp/

An "article" with grandma& #39;s comments https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/business/business-as-usual/2001/07/13/83644/teachers-texas/amp/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...

Teachers for Texas

The Sunday classified section carries ads for Filipino teachers for at least four states in the US. In some of these ads put out by recruitment companies, thereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a phrase in very small print...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.philstar.com/business/business-as-usual/2001/07/13/83644/teachers-texas/amp/

Grandma& #39;s lies.

2003 advertisement... despite having about 40+ unemployed teachers https://www.philstar.com/nation/2003/04/07/201829/us-state-need-more-teachers">https://www.philstar.com/nation/20...

US state in need of more teachers

The United States is in need of more professional educators for its burgeoning student population, providing compensation starting at $36,00 per annum to qualified teachers. Multicultural Professio...

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2003/04/07/201829/us-state-need-more-teachers

Once again, on this website, her grandmother in 2001 was caught lying to people about the teachers& #39; salary
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