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American Nightmare: Chinatown's People Smuggling Empire
Intelligence Squared
The Golden Venture
There were about 10 women on the golden venture in about 290 men or 20 men. Many of them would go and leave families behind with the understanding that they would pay off their snake head debt. In a month in New York City even working in a Chinese restaurant they could make what you would take it a year to make back in Fujian province. As soon as they paid off their debts to their snake head they would send back a down payment for some other relative to come so there's this incredible process where you have all these people who are leaving often in these very perilous kind of modes of conveyance.
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