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Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor
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Indictment: Restaurant Owners Smuggled Brazilians for Cheap Labor

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: the term “illegal” should be “undocumented,” as a person cannot be illegal. Being without documentation is a potential red flag of human trafficking, so in each case, these people may be in need of help. The sordid, sophisticated, and profitable business of illegal migration is exposed in the indictments of several people who…

FSM’s Bertino Weires, Nesly Mwarecheong plead guilty in Des Moines, Iowa to withholding passports for labor trafficking
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FSM’s Bertino Weires, Nesly Mwarecheong plead guilty in Des Moines, Iowa to withholding passports for labor trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Bertino Weires, 51, Nesly Mwarecheong, 46, are citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia. They are also residents of the United States. In December 2019, Weires and Mwarecheong convinced two young men from the FSM to come to the U.S. by promising the men they could work in the U.S. and send money back to their families….

Two Micronesians plead guilty to labor trafficking at JBS Ottumwa plant
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Two Micronesians plead guilty to labor trafficking at JBS Ottumwa plant

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The two Micronesian nationals boarded a plane to the United States believing that they would be able to find work there and send money home to their families. But when they landed in Kansas City, Missouri, according to federal prosecutors, they found a different reality. They were able to work at an Iowa meatpacking plant,…

Micronesian Couple Pleads Guilty to Withholding Passports for Labor Trafficking
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Micronesian Couple Pleads Guilty to Withholding Passports for Labor Trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  WASHINGTON — Defendants Nesly Mwarecheong, 46, and Bertino Weires, 51, residents of the United States and citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa, to two counts of unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of trafficking or forced labor. A federal grand jury in…

Credit Reporting Agencies are Failing Human Trafficking Survivors
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Credit Reporting Agencies are Failing Human Trafficking Survivors

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Samantha* wants her name on the mortgage for the home she is planning to buy with her partner. It doesn’t seem like too much to ask. She went to college, has a steady six-figure income, and has worked hard to earn this house. But Samantha is a survivor of human trafficking and like many survivors,…