Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1389 Damn

Southern Africa needs immigrants, but it also needs cheap labor.

Therefore, when human resources companies in southern Africa send immigrants to southern Africa, they have to hire a lot of cheap labor from all over the world. The Filipinos on the immigration ship are sent to southern Africa as cheap labor.

This is understandable. Human resources companies in southern Africa will sign formal labor contracts with themselves when importing labor. This is also an official way, and the US colonial government in the Philippines also recognizes it.

The problem lies with the immigrant boats.

Human resource companies must treat immigrants and laborers differently. Immigrant ships are actually passenger ships, and the cabins are graded. The real passengers and immigrants take high-end cabins, and laborers have to be crowded in crowded and dirty low-level cabins. Waiting to pass through the cabin, the environment here is very harsh. Usually, six to eight people have to be squeezed into a small room for four people. When there are too many people, the hygienic conditions are naturally not very good, and it is normal to be sick.

The Americans found more than a dozen Filipino workers infected with the disease on the immigration ship, so they had an excuse to directly detain the immigration ship under the pretext that the human resources company abused the Filipino workers.

"Tom, you can detain the ship, but the passengers and more than 600 immigrants on board are innocent, and you have no right to detain them." As soon as the Americans detained the ship, Luke Silva, the southern African ambassador to the Philippines, went directly to the Philippine Customs Commissioner Tom Strauss asked for his release.

Among the more than 600 immigrants on board, there are nearly 400 children. The Southern African Federal Government and the Nyasaland State Government have always attached great importance to children.

The Americans provided these immigrants with a temporary camp with poor facilities and a harsh environment. Although these new immigrants had lived in the camp of the human resources company for nearly a month before boarding the ship, they had to adapt and recuperate their bodies before emigration, and received good nutrition. It must be supplemented, but they may not be able to adapt to the environment of the temporary camp.

"No, no, no, Luke, those immigrants are all witnesses to the abuse of Filipino workers by your human resources company in southern Africa. They can't leave the Philippines until the truth is investigated." Tom Strauss directly refused, he thought Grasping the weakness of southern Africa, arresting the ship will not solve the problem.

"Come on Tom, compared with your immigration company in the United States, the human resource company in southern Africa is humane enough, and there is no abuse. Isn't it normal for some diseases to occur on ocean voyages? What's more, there are human resources on board. Doctor, those patients will also receive good care, after signing an agreement with the human resources company, they are already the property of the human resources company, and the human resources company will not ignore those workers for their own profits." Luke · Silva is very anxious. Quezon has been raining continuously for the past few days. The sanitation situation here is already very bad, and the situation in the temporary camp must be even worse.

Southern Africa has always had high standards for hygiene, including the camps of human resources companies, which are implemented according to the highest standards. In addition to nutritional supplements, new immigrants must also develop good hygiene habits in the camps of human resources companies , These conditions are definitely not available in the American camp.

Diseases are rampant in the tropics. The word "acclimatization" in the 21st century would not have serious consequences, but it would kill people in the early [-]th century.

In this era, it is no exaggeration to say that a common influenza can take away 10,000+ people at one time, and the United States and Japan are the hardest hit areas.

"Ha, Luke, did I hear you right? What did you just say? Property? I didn't expect you to treat living people as assets. Is this the humanity of your southern Africa?" Tom grabbed Luke's words Vulnerabilities are ridiculed.

In fact, in this regard, the United States has gone too far than southern Africa.

It’s just that some things can be done but not said, and some things can be said but not done. Assets fall into the scope of what can be done but not said.

"Tom, I'm not arguing with you, but to solve the problem. You know how much we in southern Africa attach importance to immigration. Don't let the conflict escalate." Luke said with a faint threat, burning some construction materials and arresting the boat Everything is a routine operation, as long as there are no dead people, it is easy to say anything.

It's hard to say for others. Although the nutrition of those children has been supplemented, their physical fitness has not been really improved, and their resistance is still relatively low.

In the event of mass death, relations between southern Africa and the United States are sure to deteriorate further.

"No one wants to deliberately create conflicts. We are not targeting those poor immigrants. We just ask them to stay in Quezon for a period of time to assist in the investigation." Tom insisted that southern Africa is not afraid of the United States, and the United States is not afraid of southern Africa.

Since Tom wouldn't let him go, Luke didn't have a good idea for a while.

However, Luke asked Tom to allow southern African staff to enter the temporary camp for resettling immigrants and assist the temporary camp managers in their work.

"No, the management staff of the temporary camp will take good care of the new immigrants. Your southern African staff cannot enter the temporary camp." Tom flatly refused. There are some situations in the temporary camp that are indeed not suitable for public disclosure.

"Those new immigrants are already citizens of the British Empire after waiting to board the ship, and we have the right to provide protection for overseas citizens of the British Empire." Luke made a big show. This is the benefit of southern Africa staying in the Commonwealth. You can talk about the British Empire.

"Come on, your southern Africa is already an independent country, don't get involved with London." Tom looked at Luke with contempt.

This is also no way, Americans do have the qualifications to despise southern Africa.

Back then, the United States was also a colony of the British Empire. Because the British taxed too much, the Americans rose up to resist, and then the United States came into being.

In fact, Southern Africa now has the qualifications and conditions to separate from the British Empire, but Southern Africa not only did not voluntarily separate from the British Empire, but instead tried its best to maintain the integrity of the British Empire. The concept of "Commonwealth" is the current Southern African Foreign Minister Yang Shi It was brought up by Mozi.

This makes Americans who have always talked about "freedom, equality, and democracy" really look down on southern Africa.

Especially seeing that southern Africa remains in the Commonwealth, enjoys the interests of Commonwealth countries, and when industrial products are unimpeded in all Commonwealth countries.

The Commonwealth market has always made American companies salivate.

In order to open up the Commonwealth market, some American politicians even proposed that the United States also join the Commonwealth.

Don't doubt that American politicians have no bottom line.

"Tom, I am now communicating with you as the southern African ambassador to the Philippines. Every word I say represents southern Africa. You have to consider the consequences of rejecting me." Facing Tom Strauss No oil, no salt, Luke Silva's patience finally ran out.

Tom didn't speak, but looked at Luke fiercely.

Luke didn't speak, and leaned back slightly in his chair, looking at Tom without flinching.

"Okay, you can enter the temporary camp, but you can't interfere with the work of the managers of the temporary camp." Tom finally chose to give in. Southern Africa is not a semi-colonial place to be bullied, and you don't use southern Africa. India plus British Malaya is enough for the Philippines to drink a pot.

What's more, there is the French East Indies next to the Philippines. Once the conflict between the United States and southern Africa breaks out, there is almost no doubt about the French's position, and they will definitely stand on the same position as southern Africa.

Regardless of the fact that there are some discords between Southern Africa and France, that is normal operation. On major issues, the positions of Britain and France are still the same.

Especially in the attitude towards Americans.

The temporary camp is on a hillside on the outskirts of Quezon City, next to the largest prison in Quezon.

Looking from a distance, there are not many tents in the temporary camp, and they are disorganized and disorderly. There is no fence around the temporary camp, but there is a river surrounding the temporary camp.

There has been a lot of rain in Quezon recently, the camp is muddy, sewage is flowing, and the air is filled with an unbearable smell. Luke asked the doctor who came to the temporary camp with the migrants, and found out that this prisoner was detained for nearly The temporary camp for thousands of people didn't even have a toilet.

"The situation is terrible. Each person only has one tortilla per day, and clear vegetable soup that can reflect the figure. Just this temporary camp also requires the human resources company to pay a fee of one dollar per person per day. The sanitary conditions here are terrible. , more than a dozen children have unfortunately been infected with malaria, and the situation will deteriorate rapidly if it is not improved, we lack enough medicines, food, and the management of those makeshift camps is terrible, they rob the immigrants of all their belongings My belongings, even my watch.” Mike Bedici, a doctor in the temporary camp, graduated from the Johannesburg Medical School. .

"You didn't tell them you were British?" Luke asked nonsense, Mike Beditch was white.

"Do you think Filipinos care about a British person? Even if Britain goes to war with the United States, it won't stop the Filipinos from getting rich." Mike Bedic was full of grief and indignation. Well, I still have to take some face into consideration, let alone those Filipino guards, they are really stupid if they are stupid, and they are really bad if they are bad.

At this moment, there was a sudden cry from the corner of the camp, and Luke Silva and Mike Bedic rushed over immediately.

In front of a tent in the corner of the temporary camp, a Filipino was trying to drag a Chinese girl away, while two Filipino soldiers were laughing and watching, showing no intention of stopping her.

Luke Silva's face changed color instantly.

(End of this chapter)