They're exploited nonetheless.
Your entire comment defending exploitation is and insult to anyone alive.
Disgusting semantics game to defend what the US and other countries do with migrants. You're trying to shame people when you're the one who should feel ashamed.
Its not that uncommon an argument to encounter today on the Right.
That is a very ignorant and US centric view of something that has been practiced for millennia all over the world.
Technically, that varies. Slavery is as old as humanity itself and it exists in different forms. It's not even unheard of for a slave to be wealthier than his master, although, of course, this is more of an exception. What I'm trying to say is if someone isn't picking up cotton in the american south, it doesn't mean they cannot be enslaved and don't need help