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willingly

adverb as in gladly

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Some workers go willingly to the scam hubs, while others are trafficked and held in prison-like conditions.

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“Given the right circumstances, human beings can willingly, even joyfully, dominate and torture other human beings,” he says.

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One of the employees willingly surrendered to the suspects when they heard them identify themselves as immigration agents, the FBI said.

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It raises questions of why the agents appeared to willingly let a suspect go, ultimately setting off a sequence of events that ended in a shooting that wounded Parias and a deputy marshal last week.

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Many people staffing the fraud factories say they were trafficked into the hubs, although analysts say workers also go willingly to secure attractive salary offers.

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