[NALs]

Nals
First and foremost with Lesley D you need to check your country first.

Second you need to check your issue. What YOU are discussing and citing is a worldwide organized PROSTITION RING. A thriving $3 billion+ business.

What the OP is presenting is a the issue of MIGRANT FARM WORKERS.
Two VERY different issues. Mexicans are intimately familiar with this status.

And Haitians are not involved in farms and/or prostitution in the DR against their will?

Please, explain the so called "different" issues.

Thirdly, in the US, since I am looking at my backyard, the migrant farm workers are granted PROTECTION status at many levels and are handsomely paid compare to DR.

Sure, that is why reports against slave labor in the US are poping up every now and then, because the laws are adhered to. Remember, the child labor is illegal in the DR, just how slave labor in farms in illegal in the US and yet, both are occuring right now in both places. So, what exactly is it that you are saying?

As a person that has not just driven by these workers but whose job it was to STOP and ENGAGE them as a government agent to make sure their RIGHTS were PROTECTED, you don't have a clue what you are talking about. I know my heart and intentions were in the right place. And don't doubt it violators were PROSECUTED under my watch. I also INTIMATELY worked with Dept of Labor who was also there to do the same.

Good for you, however, if I did not knew anything I was talking about, why would a person like yourself (who self perceive to know about this) are wasting your time responding to me.

I know I would not waste my time with a person who simply "doesn't know what is talking about" unless I know that person knows at least as much as I know about the issue, don't you agree?

I've also travelled to their camps which in no shape, way or form do they compare to the standards of bateyes.

Of course not, the DR is 85 years behind the US. Now, would you compare those camps to the comfortable and spacious air conditioned homes that are so prevalent all over Florida? What happened to comparing apples to apples since people are always asking me to stop comparing the DR to the US?

Show by example, please.

Rather than pointing fingers outside, the DR and ruling families should check their conscious.

We are only trying to emulate that wonderful plan outsiders have been imposing on our country since the day we got our independence. But, those involved from afar always wash their hands of their sins.

BTW, I'm not responding in an intimidating manner, but rather in a calm manner. Sometimes its hard to depict how a person reacts by simply reading words on the net. No fighting intentions here.