Politics as a human meat market - TW?CN

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By Ku Er-teh ???


When Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu (???) inspected the Chinglu Detention Center for illegal Chinese immigrants in Hsinchu on June 15, he called on China to improve its efforts to halt the flood of illegal immigrants and for the two sides to sign an agreement dealing with their return to China, in an attempt at eliminating the problem once and for all. Wu correctly pointed out that the problem cannot be resolved by Taiwan alone.

This is yet another sign of goodwill on Taiwan's part, yet a solution relies not only on political forces on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also on social forces.

Is is absolutely not a matter of what President Chen Shui-bian (???) has called "the Chinese people voting with their feet." Rather, it is a problem of a black market and people-smuggling. It is based on an inhumane and immoral underground economy. Whether they come here of their own free will or because they have been cheated or kidnapped, the female illegal immigrants, mainly involved in Taiwan's sex industry, are being exploited.

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