So documents were uncovered recently that show “Beau of the fifth column”, a breadtuber, was convicted on federal charges to 60 years in prison commutted to just 60 days. Then the government gave him back his properties, and he reappeared sometime after that as “Beau”, a fake name with a fake accent he uses to sound like a conservative blue-collar type guy.
Usually if the government hands out seized property, they need to give a reason, but they didn’t. Additionally the prosecutor did not charge crimes they could have probably charged, like assault (not battery) and possibly kidnapping.
The charges were on human trafficking, which however doesn’t mean much: the government considers that bringing people into the country under the wrong visa is human trafficking, even if you do it for selfless reasons.
It seems the reasons were not selfless though. Beau and three others formulated a plan to bring in female workers from Slovenia, Croatia, and bordering countries to the US to subcontract them as hotel staff. Temp working is of course legal and many people do it already, and I still think bringing people into a country so they can have a better life (and they consent to it) is a based thing, but what the suit doesn’t show (because they didn’t charge it) is that:
- They would house the workers and make them pay for rent, I think also preventing them from finding their own place.
- They would also bus them to work and make them pay for it, again with no other option.
- Testimonies allege verbal abuse, threats and insults to the workers who sometimes lived with up to 15 other roommates in a hotel room.
- They made the workers pay 2500$ for a visa application that usually costs up to 200$.
What got him in hot water was the visas, since they falsified the employer as the hotel instead of their company (Eurohouse). This was in 2003 up to 2007 btw.
It’s becoming clear that Beau is an FBI informant. Why else would they reduce his sentence and give him back his property? He was not on the left before, he used to write about Anonymous and that’s about it. Then he reemerges with a fake persona, a “socialist” outlook, and starts saying fed stuff like that people should not apply for a permit before a protest and the organisers should not tell this to participants (a cool way of getting everyone arrested and give them a criminal record!)
Honestly there’s nothing to salvage with “breadtube”, I can’t wait for its demise.
As nebulous as the concept of breadtube is, I’ve never heard Beau mentioned as being part of it. It’s fucked up that he was running a migrant sweatshop though, can’t believe how… accessible? that is. Like, it should not be that easy for a person to exploit immigrants 😐
Yeah but a big portion of the US economy runs on cheap immigrant labor
edit: so it makes sense that it’s easy to do. I know people involved in US immigration, it’s very arbitrary. US evaluates Chinese short term visa applicants based not on their documents–they ignore them on the basis that they can be faked but still request them–the US visa officers in China look at your skin condition. They figure wealthier families are less likely to want to immigrate, or at least would be a form of capital flight, no space for the poor though.
AU pair for example is a cheap way to have babysitting for the imperial core. Pay is horrible. Also there is lots of exploitation, many of the applicants are female and mysteriously end up staying in the country married to the person hosting them. Its way more common than you might think, and the social dynamics are totally disproportional and volatile for the foreigner.
On labor, immigrants are exploited all the time, I agree it should not be the case… but this is America ♫♫