According to this report, it just may be so:
A possible case of human trafficking at a Saudi Arabian diplomatic compound in Virginia is under investigation, Homeland Security confirmed to News4.
Agents from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement/Homeland Security Investigations and Fairfax County police were called to a home in the 6000 block of Orris Street in McLean overnight and, in the words of a source familiar with the investigation, “rescued” two women. One woman reportedly tried to flee by squeezing through a gap in the front gate as it was closing.
It’s not clear if the women, who sources say are from the Philippines, called investigators to the home themselves or if someone else did.
“Homeland Security Investigations DC did encounter two potential victims of trafficking and the investigation is ongoing,” a D.C.-based spokesman for ICE/Homeland Security investigations told News4.
The diplomatic immunity of some of those involved could make getting to the bottom of all this quite complicated.
However, it also shows that the scourge of what was once known as slavery is still very much alive. That it would appear at a diplomatic residence makes it worse. That it happened in McLean makes it personal.
