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Speaker 1: But we can join geven now for the latest. Kevin,

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Speaker 1: good morning. What exactly are they talking about slave like conditions?

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Speaker 2: Well, because they were working ten to twelve hours a day,

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Speaker 2: seven days a week. They were housed in a really

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Speaker 2: rundown apartment said to be extremely unhygienic, and were paid

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Speaker 2: at roughly six New Zealand dollars per hour. And the

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Speaker 2: problem for many of these Indian farm laborers is that

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Speaker 2: when they arrived in Italy, having been promised work visas,

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Speaker 2: their passports were taken off them. They were not given

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Speaker 2: any documentation and many arrived in debt and yes, you

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Speaker 2: guessed it, they weren't ever earning enough to pay off

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Speaker 2: the debt and the interest. And that is why two men,

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Speaker 2: also Indian nationals, have been arrested. When they were arrested Ryan,

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Speaker 2: they had over three quarters of a million Ossie dollars

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Speaker 2: in cash on them. It's big, big money, and these

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid these gangs operate in. These slave conditions are

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Speaker 2: pretty common both Italian and migrants in Italy, and I'm

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Speaker 2: afraid they're often representing many thousands of people in fields, vineyards,

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Speaker 2: greenhouses across the country. Indeed, just last month an Indian

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Speaker 2: fruit picker died after his arm was seven in a

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Speaker 2: workplace accident. Instead of taking him to the hospital, he

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Speaker 2: was just left by the side of the road where

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Speaker 2: he died. So as you can imagine, some pretty awful

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Speaker 2: scenes about how they're treated and the group these thirty

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Speaker 2: three workers are now being looked after by social services

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Speaker 2: and those with migrants support.

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Speaker 1: God, it's terrible. Let's go to Dublin. What's happening with

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Speaker 1: this protest?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid back to the situation of asylum seekers

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Speaker 2: and migration here because as you know, Ireland prides itself

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Speaker 2: on an open door, welcome to migrants. Well it's suddenly

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Speaker 2: been inundated with welcome, open door for migrants, I think

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Speaker 2: partially possibly because the UK seems to be getting tougher

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Speaker 2: on it, at least it was under the previous government.

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Speaker 2: And what happened is there was a protest. There's quite

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Speaker 2: a violent protest outside of site in North Dublin that

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Speaker 2: has been set aside for housing some of the asylum seekers.

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Speaker 2: Protesters gathered set palettes on fire, some construction machinery on

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Speaker 2: fire as well, and also attacked police with rocks. Police

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Speaker 2: fired back, trying to quell them, but several officers were injured,

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Speaker 2: with more than two hundred guardians it known or police

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Speaker 2: officers deployed to the incidents. Three of the police cars

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Speaker 2: were damaged and one of which was set on fire. Now,

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Speaker 2: all of this is because some people are saying that

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Speaker 2: there are Irish nationals who can't get housing, they can't

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Speaker 2: afford housing, they are homeless, and yet they claim new

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Speaker 2: asylum seekers a given priority on the housing list. The

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Speaker 2: government says that's not the case, but we have to

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Speaker 2: welcome migrants and we indeed have to welcome them up

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Speaker 2: to certain standards. So a great deal of tension and

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Speaker 2: not the first time there's been violence on the streets

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Speaker 2: of Dublin when trying to sort these situations out, too.

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Speaker 1: True, Gavin, thank you so much for that. That's our

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Speaker 1: UK and Europe correspondent Devin Gray. It is for more

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