Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Gaynor Something-aol, wrote a piece in today's PDN about a few Filipino construction workers who were brought to Guam and are alleged not to have been paid after they got here. Supposedly, they're living in a shack provided them by their not-so-family-like Filipino organization while waiting for justice.
The piece is short of eating rats and worms for survival and I would have been happy reading a story about that if the story had gone that direction but when the usually good business writer wrote that one of the workers left behind a a "2-week old at the time, who had just opened her eyes, not old enough to understand his goodbye.", I wanted to use the paper to throw up on. I've been around a few pets in my lifetime and know of a few that have lived a few weeks before their eyes opened but babies? Nary a one. Most of'em, including the two I had, open'em seconds after they popped out. I'm sure I can say the same for the other babies around the world...born alive, of course!
Maybe it was late at night when Ms. Gaynor Whatername aol was writing this fiction.
Otherwise, I think there's a law that's in place for crooks that bring in people from other countries. If they don't pay these people, then the people are supposed to have return tickets to their place of hire. It seems to me that these people should have gone to the Philippine consulate(why didn't Ms. Gaynor didn't ask the PI consul about what they're doing for these people living as animals-gosh, they're living worse than those people at the Gill-Baza sub-division and I thought that place was horrible!)for assistance. Shouldn't the consulate help these people get paid? Get return tickets? What else is there a consulate for if not to help?
I can't believe that anyone in the Filipino Community knew about these men and didn't do anything to help them. Hopefully, someone who read the 'fiction' on the frontpage will feel sorry for the man whose baby didn't open her eyes for its first couple of days and have enough pity for him and send him a few cans of pork and beans to tide him over until he gets enough money for a ticket home until the jerk who brought him out her pays his salary or goes to jail.
In the meantime, it's fun reading fiction on the front pages of a Gannett paper, ya think?