After entering the United States, two Mexicans in their early twenties met with two men at the Georgia-Florida border. The men offered them a paying job at their Chinese restaurants throughout Florida. Soon after accepting the job offers, the Mexicans learned that they would not receive payment even though they were working up to twenty hours a day, preparing food, handling hot pans of burning oil without protection for their hands, and traveling at night to other locations where the men forced them to work. The men gave the Mexicans three options: continue working without trying to escape and without reporting the abuses, be killed, or go to jail for being an illegal immigrant. After the Mexicans demanded payment, the men drove them near Plant City and abandoned them on the side of a road. Despite not speaking English and not knowing the area, the Mexicans ultimately found refuge at a Baptist church.