Source: NY TIMES, 12/16/17


The first inkling that Ross Mitchell knew something had gone awry was when a busload of Bulgarians he had hired to pick blueberries last month failed to appear. The way he saw it, they had been “hijacked.”The real explanation was rather more prosaic but no more palatable: During a one-night stopover in Birmingham, a city on the way to Mr. Mitchell’s farm in northern Scotland, the 30 Bulgarians were lured by a factory offering more attractive wages.

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