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 Controversy Claims 

""Garment workers in Saipan often live and work in fenced-in compounds (some residents also have fenced-in compounds),""

This statement is true but the wording seems convoluted.  The first part of the statement is I think trying to imply that the workers are semi-prisoners and the part in parenthesis is defensive?

""and they are often not permitted to leave the fenced-in areas without permission from the manager and without an escort, although against the law and previously prosecuted, to limited effect.""

It seems to me that anyone who lives on Saipan (I do) and can see the multitudes of garment workers wandering around wherever and whenever they please knows this statement is not generally true.

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