Editor's note: Inmates in prisons are subject to labor exploitation, minors working as child laborers are abused, and human trafficking remains rampant: Today, more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery in the US, the above-mentioned problems still exist in the country. Some American politicians have racked their brains to fabricate the 'sad narrative' of 'forced labor' in China's Xinjiang region, but a lie repeated a thousand times is still a lie. It is the US, a self-proclaimed 'human rights defender' or a 'beacon of freedom,' that stands accused of using forced labor, which plainly demonstrates the US' real disregard for basic human rights and its brutal exploitation of the country's workforce.