Migrants trying to cross over to Europe through the Mediterranean sea are being sold by smugglers in Libya for as low as $400.

A new investigation shows that the migrants, in their thousands, who are from Sub-Saharan Africa, are bought for farm work.

According to CNN, the migrants are sold depending on how string they are for domestic chores.

The migrants are picked by the smugglers who parade and auction them to potential buyers.

“Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig,” the CNN investigation reports as a typical salesman to have said. “What am I bid, what am I bid?”

After he raised the question, the masters then begin to bid for the migrants who are often traumatized from the torture of the journey to Libya.

Many of these migrants are denied access to communication tools and food but cannot afford to return home.

They fear that after selling off properties to bankroll the journey, through Libya to the Mediterranean coast, and then to Europe, they can’t afford to return home.

It was gathered that the Libyan coastguard have begun a clampdown. This means less number of boats can make it out to the sea.

The development leaves a backlog of migrants in the hands of the smugglers who then turn masters while the migrants become slaves.
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