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Originally Posted by Rick Lee

The sex slave thing has nothing to do with the Hershey protest. Try to stay on topic here.

It is the same topic because it is the same program.

J-1 Student Visa Abuse: Foreign Students Forced To Work In Strip Clubs, Eat On Floor
J-1 Student Visa Abuse: Foreign Students Forced To Work In Strip Clubs, Eat On Floor

They are among more than 100,000 college students who come to the U.S. each year on popular J-1 visas, which supply resorts with cheap seasonal labor as part of a program aimed at fostering cultural understanding.

Government auditors have warned about problems in the program for 20 years, but the State Department, which is in charge of it, only now says it is working on new rules. Officials won't say what those rules are or discuss on the record the problems that have plagued J-1 visas.

Student visa abuse a growing danger in America
HOLBROOK MOHR, MITCH WEISS and MIKE BAKER
December 6, 2010
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/36390

J-1 students have been recruited to smuggle cash that authorities said was stolen from U.S. bank accounts, court records show, and their identities have been used in a million-dollar income tax scam.

“It’s difficult to prosecute these cases because the workers usually leave the country within a few months. That’s why the J-1 is the ideal visa to exploit,” Coonan said.

In the worst cases, students get funneled into sexual slavery.

The J-1 Summer Work and Travel program, which allows college students to visit for up to four months, is one of the State Department’s most popular visas. Participation has boomed from about 20,000 in 1996 to a peak of more than 150,000 in 2008.