As Americans peruse store aisles and websites in search of Christmas gifts this year, many may not be aware of a sinister and growing problem with the products they are buying: If it was made in China, there’s a good chance that it was produced through slave labor.

Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, joined “Washington Watch” Wednesday to discuss how China is using slave labor as part of a system that is monetizing some of the most egregious human rights violations in the modern world.

“Seven-eighths of [Chinese-made products are] made in this Xinjiang province in northwestern China and overwhelmingly with forced labor—slave labor—by entities run and managed by the Communist Party of China,” Cuccinelli said, adding:

And they, frankly, make a profit off of it. This is 1 to 3 million people. This is not small potatoes. So that’s what they’re doing to oppress the minority up there, to try to force them to adopt Han Chinese culture and abandon their own faith and abandon their own culture by force.