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Remember when the Dems wept over “kids in cages”? That’s because they want them on the factory floor.
Open borders has turned into the single greatest human trafficking operation in this country in a decade in which kids are helping make social justice ice cream.
Ben & Jerry’s claimed that it supported open borders because of the company’s “social mission” and “values”. Those values were measured in the dollar and cents bottom line. The milk that went into the company’s ice cream depended on the cheap labor of those same migrants.
A New York Times investigation found that Ben & Jerry’s was among the corporate brands benefiting from child labor. Of the various companies, Ben & Jerry’s was the most shameless about the use of child labor with Cheryl Pinto, its head of “values-led sourcing”, stating that “if migrant children needed to work full time, it was preferable for them to have jobs at a well-monitored workplace.”
Kids have been injured and even killed at these “well-monitored workplaces”.
Mississippi poultry plant said Wednesday that it had no idea a 16-year-boy who was killed in an on-the-job accident was a minor.
The victim, a Guatemalan immigrant named Duvan Tomas Perez, died July 14 after he became entangled in machinery that he was cleaning, Mar-Jac Poultry said in a statement.
But the open borders child labor business is booming.
The same day that Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced criticism on Capitol Hill from members of both parties about reports of underage migrants working dangerous jobs, Labor Department officials announced a 44% increase in the number of children it found to be employed illegally.
During a hearing Wednesday on immigrant child labor, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D.-Calif, told Becerra that she was not satisfied with his agency’s response to questions she and 25 other House members had sent him in late May. After reports of child labor surfaced, they sent Becerra a letter asking about how carefully HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which finds homes for unaccompanied migrant minors, was vetting the sponsors who were offering to host the children.
“If ORR is ‘meeting and exceeding its statutory requirements,’ why are we witnessing such an alarming rise in the exploitation of children discharged from the agency’s custody?” she asked.
I’m sure they’re as thorough as the vetting of illegal aliens at the border.
He said the agency’s vetting of sponsors remains thorough and agency oversight legally ends once children leave ORR’s care and are placed with a sponsor.
This is human trafficking in plain sight and you can bet that Democrat donors, like Ben & Jerry’s, are profiting from it.
Follow the money.
Twelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee. Underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina. Children sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota.
It was almost midnight in Grand Rapids, Mich., but inside the factory everything was bright. A conveyor belt carried bags of Cheerios past a cluster of young workers. One was 15-year-old Carolina Yoc, who came to the United States on her own last year to live with a relative she had never met.
About every 10 seconds, she stuffed a sealed plastic bag of cereal into a passing yellow carton. It could be dangerous work, with fast-moving pulleys and gears that had torn off fingers and ripped open a woman’s scalp.
The factory was full of underage workers like Carolina, who had crossed the Southern border by themselves and were now spending late hours bent over hazardous machinery, in violation of child labor laws.
This is why they didn’t want children intercepted and detained. Remember AOC’s crocodile tears at the parking lot? That’s what this was always about.
If a 16 year old has no other means of surviving but to go to work is it compassion to deny him the right to work? Because that’s the bottom line, work or don’t eat, that was the reality of life in the 19th century and before.
It’s easy for some of us from the material comfort provided by a modern, advanced, industrialized, country to be appalled by the fact that in other countries such a level of prosperity has not been achieved and children have to work to survive but that is the reality just as it was the reality for the West in the 19th century.
“There was a certain irony in a recent news story about the government cracking down on Sears because the department store chain was accused of having hired some workers who were not quite old enough to be working, according to the child labor laws.
Richard Sears, who founded the company, was younger than these workers when he began working. So was Aaron Montgomery Ward. An even younger worker was James Cash Penney, Jr., founder of the chain of stores bearing his name.
When J. C. Penney was an eight-year-old boy growing up on a family farm, his father told him that he was now old enough to buy his own clothes. Moreover, neither his parents nor his older siblings would tell him how to get the money. He had to figure that out for himself, as the older children had had to do before him. With a hole in his shoe, he had a special incentive to go find some work to do.
These department store magnates were not unique in starting to work at an early age. John Jacob Astor, who would eventually become the richest man in America, left home and began working at lowly jobs as a teenager. So did future Wall Street financier Jay Gould, future steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, future oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, future founder of the American automobile industry Henry Ford and future radio pioneer David Sarnoff, who created RCA and NBC.
What if our wonderfully compassionate and ever zealous social crusaders had been around then and had managed to put a stop to this child labor?” – Thomas Sowell
“Thomas Sowell on Child Labour”
https://logicalsceptic.blogspot.com/2011/11/dr-thomas-sowell-on-child-labour.html
Let’s bring back slavery. Slaves get free room and board. It sounds wonderful.
And F going to school. Kids should be working dangerous jobs at low wages so adults can be screwed out of money.
DERP.
This isn’t the 19th century and in America, children do not have to work long hours at dangerous jobs. Of course they shouldn’t be here in the first place, because such people as their parents, coming here from socialist third-world hellholes, do not value freedom and are dragging America down to the level of those same places.
On child labor generally, once it was no longer necessary it was right and proper to make it illegal, since obviously there are plenty of people ready to exploit children given the opportunity.
“The least understood and most widely misrepresented aspect of the history of capitalism is child labor.
One cannot evaluate the phenomenon of child labor in England during the Industrial Revolution…. unless one realizes that the introduction of the factory system offered a livelihood, a means of survival, to tens of thousands of children who would not have lived to be youths in the pre-capitalistic eras.
The factory system led to the rise of the general standard of living, to rapidly falling urban death rates and decreasing infant mortality — and produced an unprecedented population explosion….
One is both morally unjust and ignorant of history if one blames capitalism for the condition of children during the Industrial Revolution, since, in fact, capitalism brought an enormous improvement over their condition in the preceding age. The source of that injustice was ill-informed, emotional novelists and poets, like Dickens and Mrs. Browning; fanciful medievalists like Southey; political tract writers posturing as economic historians like Engels and Marx….
How did children thrive before the Industrial Revolution? In 1697, John Locke wrote a report for the Board of Trade on the problem of poverty and poor-relief. Locke estimated that a laboring man and his wife in good health could support no more than two children, and he recommended that all children over three years of age should be taught to earn their living at working schools for spinning and knitting, where they would be given food. “What they can have at home from their parents,” wrote Locke, “is seldom more than bread and water, and that very scantily too.”
Child labor was not ended by legislative fiat; child labor ended when it became economically unnecessary for children to earn wages in order to survive – when the income of their parents became sufficient to support them. The emancipators and benefactors of those children were not legislators or factory inspectors, but manufacturers and financiers.” ~ Robert Hessen, Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Women and Children, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
We don’t live in the industrial revolution of England and every one of these invader brats is eligible for generous welfare benefits that native born Americans aren’t.
It will be wonderful when one day the whole world reaches the level of industrialization and productivity America has reached and no child under the age of 28 has to work.
But affluence has its risks too, how many American children die in car accidents or of drug overdoses.
Kids die because of cars and drugs? Let’s just kill ’em all! They’re going to die eventually anyway, right?
But the real problem our media have is with a movie about child trafficking.
And still after all the many many years after the Civil War and the Democrats are still using slaves
They’re natural feudalists.
That’s exactly want they want. A 21st century version of feudalism. Maybe we’d be allowed to own property and maybe not but all of us serfs would be working for the ignoble “nobility.” They want slaves and employees, not citizens.
Yes. This whole movement was built on reversing the industrial revolution and bringing back some kind of natural nobility.
They don’t even know how to use toilets, very risky for them to be using dangerous equipment.
They are doing the jobs, American twelve-year-olds just won’t do.
Hi, I’m Daniel Greenfield. I can’t think of anything else to write about, and “Sound of Freedom” is killing it at the box office (never mind that I fancy myself a film critic but would rather not comment on a movie that is, at best, a mediocre crime melodrama), so I will just recycle a few of my previous “reports” on child labor among immigrant children. Never fear, the bad faith with which I approach the issue is undiminished.
Yeah, child labor is awesome. America should import as many foreign brats as possible to undercut American adults who are qualified for jobs.
And you haven’t seen “Sound of Freedom,” you lying sack of shit. I bet you streamed “Barbie,” though. Dickhorn.
The Labor Department and members of Congress commented on these numbers.
Even your party thinks this is serious.
The Child Labor Laws was passed over 100 Years ago to prophibit kids from having to work in Dangerous Jobs and required for good education Biden and his fellow Globalists Gates and Soros Etc. want kids to work in mines for the Cobalt to make the Batteries for the EV’s him and his fellow UN/Globalists want to force on us over this totally fake threat of Global Warming/Climate Change
Yes, Jack London wrote about the evils of child labor very effectively. And it IS evil.
The entire article just shows how corrupt corporations are in the 21st century. The CEOs and Board of Directors of corporations should all be put in prisons for a very long time instead of just paying a fine. Corrupt government officials are just as bad. Based on this article. I will not buy Cheerios again. When corruption like this happens, stop buying their products.