Dozens of Nepalese workers missing from Ala. plant

Bob Marley,

   Why would they hire somebody from Nepal and issue visa for only 7 months?I mean think how far is Nepal from here and those companies knew that how much we need to spend our money and time.Its not a game to be played with us and do watever they want.If they want workers only for 7 months wat is the meaning of hiring workers from the other side of globe?That doesn't make sense.Why to issue a visa?Why not Mexicans,Puerto Ricans or sb who is close?These companies are just inducing people to work illegally.Same thing as US government..They know everything about illegal immigrants and produce statistics every year but still do not take any action unless sb is caught on some kind of offenses?

Well $8.00 an hr., do u think they can pay their loan from Nepal to get here in 6 or 7 months, and on top of that provide some to feed their families back home plus feed themselves?? We are not in same page here, so forget about it.

Bob, refer to Gazadi.....and don't blame yourself.  

Why did they take so much loan in the first place? 17 lakhs is not a joke. In Nepal people want to earn lots of moeny with little bit of work. They are not educated, so not have any skills and they expected to be paid how much $30/hour??? This is ridiculous.

With so much money, they could have done something else in Nepal, but no, that is hard work and who wants to do hardwork? Dollars grows in tree in US and they would rather come here and pick them up. No hard work for Nepalis. Period...

Hmm

To Poonhill and others who think they did the right thing under the bad situation,

You cannot cover your mistake by doing illegal activities. This news is just in local media and in internet right now. However, it has potential to make it to CNN and Foxnews headline. If the immigration debate heats up and FoxNews and Bill O'Reilly picks this news up, they will definitely use it to drum up their anti-immigration support and all the Nepalese wanting to get a visa, wanting a job to support through school, etc. will be in trouble.

They are already in the INS wanted list now. I am sure Homeland security is looking for them and this has potential to hurt many other Nepalis unrelated to this incident, who may get caught when Homeland Securoity is looking for these people - like students who work 20 hours to support their school tuitions. This may also lead to further scrutiny in obtaining visa and getting a job for Nepalese.

So you cannot see this incident in isloation. Every action has consequences. I think in this case the negative consequences (trouble for many Nepalis in the US with visa, employment, deportation) significantly outweighs the posivite consequence (paying their Rs. 17 lakh debt). However, I know Nepalis do not think this way.

What they did is very stupid,,,It will definately creat a difficult situation for nepali people living in US directly , indirectly. They have done right for their own purpose, if i were one of them i would do the same rather than flying back to nepal. But, this incident surely will put students and all other nonimmigrant people living in US in a difficult situation. In many states, Students are already facing lots of problems working in cash off campus, and without working off-campus i dont think more than 90% of nepali student can survive in US.

This incident is going to poisoned nepali student's life in US.

OMG

17 lakhs for a visa,

they would have a good life with that money back home, rather than working for years to clear the debt, away from home and family. In the first place they are dumba$$, they could start a good business back home. Their famile members must be proud that these people are in US, earn alot of money and become millionire within years. this is the problem in nepal, they dont knoe the real situation here

in second place this will certainly create problem for the rest in US and those trying to come here, they never thought of that-so they are stupid.

I feel sorry for these guys but see what have they done. I do not care about the superficial Nepali pride but it really has potential to hurt tens of thousands of Nepalese brothers and sisters lives in the US. Unfortunately, Nepalese with lower income/lesser skill bracket and illegal ones are likely to bear most of the brunt from the backlash.

It already has hit Foxnews.com (although it is on the bottom). I hope it will not make the headlines and I hope Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbubh and their rightwingers do not pick this news. They can make a hell of noise making Nepalis' lives miserable.

If you look at blogosphere, you can see the reactions and what people are saying about our countrymen (many of the criticisms are directed towards the Company as well).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962676/posts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2797750

Only if we Nepalese ever thought about consequences of our actions to other people, this would not have happened.

http://www.waff.com/global/video/popup/pop_player.asp?ClipID1=2146936&h1=Foreign%20workers%20vanish&vt1=v&at1=Video

Hey, Guys!

Missing those hardworking yet victimzed people should not be news.  They are obviously looking for settle down with reliable wages paid job.  What should be news is - who charged them 17 to 25 Lakhs NRS.  I saw these stories in US base websites. Why can't they dare to investigate from journalistic point of view and make the wrong doings by these thugs? There is big rumors that some thugs from Baltimore area are involved in charging these people big sum but so called US base journalists is not writing unbiased news. Shouldn't these thugs be brought to the public light?

Poonhill,

I think doing the right thing is better alternative than doing the best thing for yourself in the long run. This philosophy has really helped me.

I agree these guys are victims although running away was a very bad decision. I felt sorry looking at their faces in the video. For people who are still working in the factory, they may be able to use the legal channel to recover Rs. 17 lakh they paid. According to Nepali Post, the Nepali agent is in the US. They can go after the Nepali agent, the American Temporary Staffing Company that used Nepali Agents, and even Cinram itself. Cinram should have known what kind of staffing company they were using.

I hope these guys can get into contact with some pro-bono immigration lawyers/interest group in Alabama. Or they should tell the TV crew in the interview that the agents duped them $25K fees by luring them with attractive compensation and good lifestyle and bringing them to Alabama with $8/hr job.