Thousands of immigrant farm
laborers are being exploited by crew leaders with links to the
mob, the president of the Sicily anti-Mafia commission told the
Lower House on Wednesday.
"No one can pretend to ignore this extremely grave
situation, which pits foreigners being subjected to unspeakable
exploitation and humiliation against Italian laborers being
forcibly expelled from the market," conservative MP Sebastiano
(Nello) Musumeci told his colleagues.
Musumeci went on to call for law and order to work with
unions to eradicate the phenomenon, which in Italy is called
"caporalato".
Caporalato, which was made a crime in 2011, refers to
intermediaries with mob connections who round up undocumented
day laborers and take them to farms or construction sites, using
violence or intimidation to force them to work long hours with
low pay, no breaks and no protection.
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