This is an interesting site and since the subject came up in another forum i thought I'd start a new one on the subject. I had an opportunity back in I think it was 2000 to sit beside a chinese interpreter for the Federal Government Immigration Dept. This was just after they found all those chinese who were being smuggled into our country off the coast of BC. These people were for the most part from rural areas of China, little or no education who were promised a better life in America.(He informed me that most of these traffic smugglers are heading for the USA, may get into Canada and then smuggled into the U.S. to work in sweatshops or underground factories. The fee to get here was $10,000.00 U.S. which they must pay back from the work they are promised. Except there really is no chance of ever paying it back because they work for dollars a day and become prisoners in these shops. Of course they don't know this when the make the long and most times dangerous trek to North America. He told me that for most of them they have no intention of staying here, they just need to make enough money to take back to be able to support their families. He also said that many of these sweatshops are located right in the U.S.A. and are tied to some big name clothing lines.
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/index.php?s=54