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However, these jobs are being ‘sold’ for huge fees, and covers the cost of dangerous routes - we even found some openly admitting that their services are entirely illegal. The people who enquire about jobs are expected to borrow money from loan sharks charging huge interest rates so they can afford to travel now. In some cases, the smugglers offer the loans themselves, or offer an introduction.  This creates a ‘debt bondage’ - those being smuggled will be expected to work illegally, both during the journey and after they arrive at their destination, until the debt is cleared. We found evidence of smugglers promising that it will be “easy” to earn several thousand pounds a month working in nail bars in the UK, so clearing the debt will be done swiftly. They say that within a few years it will be possible to send life-changing sums of cash home to family in Vietnam.

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