Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 08:33:08 -0700
Subject: Re: The Mesmerism of (Post?)Colonial Britain


I guess thats where Chinese folks went this year....
the ones who arrived in boats on the British Columbia west coast just a few 
miles from "home" were interned to await immigration hearings...the kids 
were put into foster homes...many have fled across the US border....

its no mystery why they need to come to places where organized crime will 
move them into economic servitude...to pay for their "immigration" and pay 
and pay and pay....

the higher the level of commercial traffic the greater the opportunity to 
cross borders.....it is traffic in human beings organized and 
systematic...not like a few folks getting together and saying "lets go to 
Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend"....
the patterns change the way the drug traffic patterns change....

the parallels between some of this traffic are well established....

Vancouver is a popular entry point for both.... especially from Asia

I understand Germany is a target for eastern european refugees...the 
article I read yesterday was about the newborns of prostitutes from poorer 
European countries working for various mobs being sold to
German parents who aren't having their own....

if we discount the "color" of these folks and look at the distribution of 
power and the economics....we might "see" more...



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