In Debt, Far From Home And Claiming Servitude.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CHIN Ba Ngo; TELEVISION advertising
    • Subject Terms:
      HANOI (Vietnam); VIETNAM; UNITED States
    • Abstract:
      HOUSTON -- The television advertisements the welder saw in Hanoi were alluring, almost too good to be true. A company partly owned by the government was offering jobs in the United States that paid $15 an hour, plus overtime, far more than the man, Chin Ba Ngo, could make in Vietnam. When he met with agents for the company, they asked for a $10,000 fee to put him in touch with an American company seeking laborers. He mortgaged his house and borrowed heavily from family members to come up with the money. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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