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Where are all those migrants streaming across the border going? Some are going to work. No matter their age.
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
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.
Ben and Jerry’s, when it’s not calling for the destruction of America and Israel, is pretty open about its progressive and liberal attitude toward 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.” It’s an argument that sounds straight out of Oliver Twist.
Pinto, a former risk manager for its Unilever parent company, had been dubbed “Ben & Jerry’s sorceress” who focused on positive social impact. The sorcery turned out to be of the Hansel & Gretel variety with children being lured to the ovens of an ice cream gingerbread house.
Deaths unsurprisingly happen under these conditions. Here’s the latest one.
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.
It’s the usual story. Companies outsource labor to contractors. Everyone claims that they didn’t know anything, but we actually know that there’s a massive flood of underage migrant labor in factories.
This time around it’s happening in the name of social justice. No human being is illegal, wealthy lefties and their paid activists scream while ignoring the Dickensian reality they’re implementing.
Some Cheetos are manufactured in Mexico, then shipped to Texas, where they get hung up in Customs.
The Mexicans are notorious for whizzing in Corona beer bottles, so who knows what they’re doing to our Cheetos.
Yeah, just what I’m worried 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 int 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
All those wet-backs are able to get welfare.
That is the main reason for their coming. We have been advertising all over Mexico in Spanish (and who knows where else) how to come to the United States and access welfare. Our government is actively inviting our destruction and replacement.
And I have loved traveling to Mexico in the past. It is a beautiful country, rich in natural resources and beauty. But Mexicans have a culture that is morally poisonous. Pedophilia, bestiality, dishonesty, bribery, etc.
They are hard workers and who doesn’t love good Mexican food? But Mexican food is easy to make and we have people who also work hard.
I feel a bit guilty writing the above, because Mexico has pockets of greatness – but my surmise is Mexico has never been western. The native population never let go of its pagan and primitive values and the Catholic church largely syncretizes local religions whose practices are filthy and enslaving.
But the Left is always credited with having “good intentions.” So there’s that.
I heard on Telemundo yesterday that this 16-year-old was in the US on fake documents that lied about his age. And he was hired on the basis of this fake ID. So he is not exactly an innocent victim.
Everything in life entails risk, including crossing a busy street, driving a car, owning a gun, getting pregnant and delivering a baby, and the pursuit of happiness.
But we don’t rationally condemn people for taking calculated risks in their pursuit of happiness.
No, I’m not advocating Open Borders, but looking to become a self-supporting, productive, human being is a morally legitimate reason to immigrate to America and no one has the right to morally condemn that rational and moral pursuit of happiness.
P.J. didn’t condemn the brat, he just noted that he wasn’t blameless.
And no wet-back should be able to take a job from an America. Let them fix their own shit-hole countries instead of despoiling ours.
And you believed that? Why would Telemundo lie? Gee, I don’t know? Is Soros money invested in Telemundo?
“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
Horrible. Thank you for shining a spotlight on this. Clearly, since the primary concern should be the welfare of those children, we should expand and improve immigration infrastructure so that they can be protected from exploitative conditions, regardless of whether the perpetrators support Dems or Reps. Nice work, Daniel!
The immigration infrastructure could best be improved by deporting every wet-back.
Liberal Democrat Politicians built this.
Yeah, right.
Immigration during the Reagan Presidency
https://www.boundless.com/blog/reagan/
All due to the Dirtbagocrats in Congress.
Try harder with your trolling, joto.
Blood on the hands of the DNC the Open Borders persons the UN, Soros and the CFR Etc.