Springfield temp agency accused of exploitation of migrant workers



First Diversity is a staffing agency in Springfield, Ohio, and it has drawn criticism from U.S. citizens and Haitians who are now living in the city of taking advantage of the new arrivals to the area at the expense of its clients.

Asra Nomani explained in Jewish Journal that whistleblowers who used to work at First Diversity say they were forced to accept false documents to keep illegal immigrants in the company’s database, that workers' wages were not reflective of the hours they worked, and that identity theft was rife in their environment.

'They treat people as paid slavery. ... They are in hell while living on earth.'

The complaints and accusations have reached the Ohio Attorney General's office. Not only is First Diversity under investigation for the previously mentioned problems, but investigators are also looking into allegations of human trafficking facilitated by the company. Even First Diversity employees were not spared, Nomani reported.

"Some of the whistleblowers cried, recounting their experiences working at First Diversity. Workers spoke of paychecks that never arrived, long hours with no overtime and promises of stability that quickly turned to dust. Some, like the 24-year-old woman and her mother, had their Social Security numbers allegedly stolen, while others found their I-9 forms and drug test results faked to keep them in the system," Nomani wrote.

In 2021, a small group of Haitians stormed into First Diversity's office to demand an explanation to what they say were manipulated wages that didn't match the hours they worked, calling the company "thieves."

The head of First Diversity, George Ten, denied the allegations to Nomani.

“We are a successful business that connects people with jobs. We improve the lives of Haitian migrant workers, which is why they keep working with us," Ten said in an email.

First Diversity's shift toward Haitian workers started in 2019, but business apparently boomed when the Biden-Harris administration expanded the number of Haitians who could qualify for Temporary Protected Status. The company said using local U.S. citizens for jobs in the area was a "nightmare" as the turnover rate was high and their performance was lower compared with Haitians.

The complaints of Haitians being exploited for their labor go as far back as 2019. Jean André, a Haitian-American pastor, described to Nomani horrendous conditions in which he saw Haitians living when he picked them up for church.

"It is really a shame to see how they treat people as paid slavery. This is what I call it. They are in hell while living on earth,” Jean said. “You get my word? So that means they are suffering terribly. And the bad thing about it, when you are suffering terribly, you cannot do anything about it. ... When you are suffering, you don’t see how you can take yourself out of the situation, and you have to live it."

While on the ground in Springfield, Blaze News met with many individuals, most of whom mentioned without prompting the problems associated with First Diversity.

"They're indentured servants," local Mark Sanders said about the Haitian migrants. "They are actually oversold to the temp agency. So indentured servitude was something that was made illegal decades and decades and decades ago, here it's back again."

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Women in the Spanish military reportedly enjoy various benefits on account of their sex — such as boosted pay, improved pensions, and better sleeping arrangements. A handful of male soldiers have figured out a novel way to address this systematic inequality: claim to be women.

According to the Spanish newspaper El Español, male soldiers have begun to exploit the "Trans Law," which socialist parliamentarians managed to pass in early 2023 despite strong opposition from conservatives and feminists.

Under the new law, men no longer need to take cross-sex hormones for two years or undergo medical evaluations in order to call themselves "women." Now, they just have to fill out some paperwork and formally request that their ID card and passport reflect their preferred gender identity.

The Telegraph highlighted how the passage of this law coincided with the rollout of added benefits for women in the military and in the security forces as a means to drive up female recruitment.

Ostensibly seeking to exploit the one law in order to enjoy the fruits of the other, 41 men in the Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa have legally changed their gender identifiers in the last year. The majority of these newly minted "women" are serving in the military or the police. Only four of the men bothered to legally change their names, and there is no indication that anyone has changed their marital status, according to El Español.

Roberto Perdigones, one of the men now listed on official documents as a woman, is a 35-year-old corporal in the army stationed in Ceuta. Perdigones has a beard, male genitalia, a biological son, and a strong physical attraction to women.

Perdigones told El Español, "On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but on the inside, I am a lesbian. And it is the latter that counts. This is why I made the legal change to become a woman."

Perdigones indicated that "affirmative action measures" incentivized men to switch genders on their documentation.

Since first identifying as a woman last year, he claims he has acquired improved sleeping quarters, his own bathroom, and a fatter paycheck.

"For changing my gender, I have been told that my pension has gone up because women get more to compensate for inequality," Perdigones told El Español. "I also get 15 per cent more salary for being a mother."

"I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom," continued the corporal. "This is because I cannot be with men as I am a woman, and I did not consider it appropriate to be with biological women out of respect for them."

In addition to better accommodations and pay, Perdigones does not have to abide by the hair and jewelry restrictions imposed on male soldiers.

Outside the military, Perdigones told the paper that there are additional benefits. For starters, when applying for various police and security roles, he only has to satisfy the requirements set in women-specific physical tests, which reportedly tend to be less demanding. His status as a woman also gives him a fighting chance in custody battles over his son.

An unidentified officer with Spain's civil guard, one of the country's two national police forces, told the Spanish newspaper that some of his colleagues have been exploiting the "Trans Law" as a "kind of rebellion" against such leftist policies.

"I have already seen several cases among my colleagues, and it is going to increase, because there are quite a few people who have requested it and are in the process," said the officer. "So, from time to time, the number is going to be much higher."

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Senate Republicans acknowledge Biden has 'created the largest child trafficking ring in US history'



Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden Wednesday of creating "the largest child trafficking ring in U.S. history."

The video accompanying the statement, which contains remarks from various senators, including Ted Cruz (Texas) and Josh Hawley (Mo.), echoes recent remarks made by Tim Ballard, the former Department of Homeland Security agent whose relentless pursuit of child traffickers across the globe is the subject of the massively successful new film "Sound of Freedom."

Cruz says in the footage that "the Biden administration has utterly failed to secure the border and has encouraged parents to send their minor alien children on dangerous trips to the United States unaccompanied. It’s failed to protect these children after they’ve been let into the United States."

Footage of Hawley slamming the United States Department of Health and Human Services back in June is also featured, with the senator from Missouri saying, "It's a conveyor belt of children being forced through the system, and what's the priority of HHS? Just get 'em out as fast as we can."

During the same hearing, Hawley said, "This administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery. ... They are doing nothing about it."

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas) says in the video posted to the Senate Republicans' Twitter page, "Biden does not care about the 300,000 plus unaccompanied children that have been placed with sponsors since he became president."

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 390,300 minors crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into the nation unaccompanied over the past three fiscal years.

The New York Times, whose reportage was invoked in the video, stressed earlier this year, "These are no children who have stolen into the country undetected. The federal government knows they are in the United States, and the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring sponsors will support them and protect them from trafficking exploitation."

The Biden White House has reportedly accelerated the process by which the minors are dispatched from shelters to eager adults, in part as a result of the deluge of illegal aliens entering the facilities. Caseworkers have complained that the process of vetting sponsors has similarly been rushed, meaning there's no telling what kinds of people many of these kids are ending up with.

The Center Square reported that as of early 2022, it was determined that over 45,000 migrant children had gone missing. That total has more than doubled in the months since, accounting for the 85,000 missing children figure used in the Senate Republicans' post.

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Child liberator Tim Ballard recently raised similar concerns during an interview with the Daily Signal. He too assigned blame to Biden and his administration, claiming their support for open borders has helped to feed the "economy of pedophilia."

"Thousands of them ... are under 5 years old," said Ballard. "Why is a 3-year-old showing up at the border? ... Well, I can tell you why, because they show up with a name — the name of the sponsor that they're given by the trafficker."

"[The Department of Health and Human Services] gets the kids and they by law have to call the number. 'Hi, we have Jose Gonzalez, Mr. George Smith.' 'Yeah, yeah, that's my kid, whatever.' 'Okay,'" said Ballard, dramatizing a hypothetical conversation between a prospective predator and an unwitting facilitator at the HHS.

"They used to actually fly down and have to pick the kid up. Not any more. Our taxpayer dollars will then send the kid by plane or bus to this George, the sponsor; no background check, no DNA, nothing. And they deliver the kids. Our taxpayer dollars are literally — for the first time in American history — our taxpayer dollars are going to facilitate the last leg of a child-trafficking event," said Ballard.

"$14 million a day are landing in the pocket of smugglers and traffickers, thanks to the Biden-Harris border policy," continued Ballard. "The only compassionate policy is border enforcement — barriers, walls. Why? And the 'Sound of Freedom' talks about this. Because the walls and the barriers lead the children who are being hurt into that funnel of rescue. Trained women and men in uniform are there. Those kids want to go through the port of entry. ... Those kids pray for a wall. The wall will save their lives."

Children smuggled into the United States by cartel members and other criminal elements have not all ended up in the hands of pedophiles.

The Times indicated that migrant children in the country illegally are frequently "ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom."

Beside sex slavery and laboring for woke ESG-conscious companies like PepsiCo. and Ben & Jerry's, some migrant minors are also stuck doing the bidding of the criminals who sent them.

Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd of Texas told the Center Square that cartels employ teenage boys and men claiming to be minors to execute crimes on American soil on behalf of the cartels.

"Cartels don’t allow indebted illegal aliens to reside freely in the United States and attend high school unless that person is there for the purpose of providing a revenue stream for the cartel," said Boyd. "This usually includes distributing drugs, recruiting locals into employment with the cartel, or as was the case in the Midwest last year, the movement of local teenage girls into cartel custody for forced prostitution."

Further to the Senate Republicans' video statements, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) claimed, "President Joe Biden has turned our southern border into an endless turnstile of illegal immigration, and human and drug smugglers are taking advantage of it. This is a heartbreaking humanitarian crisis beyond proportion."

Beyond the horrors faced by the minors and women trafficked into the nation, the illegal immigration under Biden's watch is costly for Americans, both in terms of blood and treasure.

As of June 2023, over 8 million illegal aliens have entered into the country, reportedly exceeding the populations of 38 states.

TheBlaze reported in May that the annual cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers is $151 billion and rising.

While shelling out cash to pay down the cost of Democratic ambitions, some American families are forced to dig graves. U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicated that there were 60 criminal noncitizens convicted of murder in 2021 and another 62 the following year. 15 murder convictions have already been given to illegal aliens this year. In the four years preceding Biden's tenure, there were no more than three murder convictions a year.

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