The NY Times piece was featured here ….
It’s gonna be interesting….
Are we going back to Federal raids on business locations?
How are the Republicans gonna react to this?
How about business?
If the kids cannot make money?
What do they and their parents do?
This COULD get complicated….
The system CANNOT handle the influx of minors who NEED to work to help their families survive in a country that gives them ‘freedom’ but has HIGH consumer prices and living costs….
The American immigration policy and system continues to be a unorganized mess that NOBODY CAN and seriously wants or has the ability to ‘fix’….
The money , will and politics is just NOT THERE from lawmakers….
The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, including more aggressive investigations of companies benefiting from their work.
The development came days after The New York Times published an investigation into the explosive growth of migrant child labor throughout the United States. Children, who have been crossing the southern border without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in punishing jobs that flout child labor laws, The Times found.
The White House laid out a host of new initiatives to investigate child labor violations among employers and improve the basic support that migrant children receive when they are released to sponsors in the United States. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, called the revelations in The Times “heartbreaking” and “completely unacceptable.”
As part of the new effort, the Department of Labor, which enforces these laws, said it would target not just the factories and suppliers that illegally employ children, but also the larger companies that have child labor in their supply chains. Migrant children often use false identification and find jobs through staffing agencies that do not verify their Social Security numbers….
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Once children are released, they have few options for additional help. Most leave shelters with little but the phone number for a national hotline run by H.H.S. The Times found that children were calling the hotline to report labor exploitation and hearing nothing back. Operators were generally referring calls to local law enforcement and other agencies, who may not have followed up.
On Monday, senior administration officials said Health and Human Services would now direct operators to return calls to children and require them to explain what local law enforcement agency would be in touch.
After caseworkers told The Times that H.H.S. regularly ignored obvious signs of labor exploitation — including adults who were sponsoring up to 20 children at a time — the agency said Monday that it would spend a month investigating whether policies needed to be changed for people who sponsor multiple children.
Case managers will also start providing information to sponsors and recently released children about U.S. labor protections….