Heroes of the Federal Bureaucracy

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My brother-in-law Tim has been going to Jordan (the Middle Eastern country) for work, and I just found out why.

Jordan has a favored trading status with the US, and we do a lot of importing of Jordanian goods. However, during the last administration, no one was paying much attention to labor practices, and companies in Jordan starting abusing workers. Apparently companies would recruit immigrants from poor Asian nations like the Philippines and bring them to a vast work center in the middle of nowhere. They take their passports and then basically work them to death. There is no escaping because they have no money, no means of exit, and no passport. It amounts to modern slavery.

Now that a new administration is in place, the Dept. of Labor is back to doing its job. And Tim, who works in the Dept. of Labor, is part of a work group trying to put an end to these abusive practices.

Another unsung hero of the federal bureaucracy. Yay Tim!
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