This is kind of the annoying part about the Sex Trafficking conversation about exploited minors.
These are not children who have stolen into the country undetected. The federal government knows they are in the United States, and the Department of Health and Human Services is responsible for ensuring sponsors will support them and protect them from trafficking or exploitation.
But as more and more children have arrived, the Biden White House has ramped up demands on staffers to move the children quickly out of shelters and release them to adults. Caseworkers say they rush through vetting sponsors.
While H.H.S. checks on all minors by calling them a month after they begin living with their sponsors, data obtained by The Times showed that over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children. Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children.
Like the gov knows who these kids are. Same thing happens in the Texas CPS system. The kids most likely to be trafficked are well known. They aren't the lily white daughter of the car dealership owner.
A representative for Hearthside said the company relied on a staffing agency to supply some workers for its plants in Grand Rapids, but conceded that it had not required the agency to verify ages through a national system that checks Social Security numbers. Unaccompanied migrant children often obtain false identification to secure work.
“We are immediately implementing additional controls to reinforce all agencies’ strict compliance with our longstanding requirement that all workers must be 18 or over,” the company said in a statement.
“If Henry Ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never become famous and rich. This is not the way you do an assembly line,” Mr. Becerra said at a staff meeting last summer, according to a recording obtained by The Times.
The Government Officials are more childlike than the Children working the jobs 😂😂
In Pennsylvania, one case worker told The Times he went to check on a child released to a man who had applied to sponsor 20 other minors. The boy had vanished. In Texas, another case worker said she had encountered a man who had been targeting poor families in Guatemala, promising to help them get rich if they sent their children across the border. He had sponsored 13 children.
“I didn’t get how expensive everything was,” said 13-year-old Jose Vasquez, who works 12-hour shifts, six days a week, at a commercial egg farm in Michigan and lives with his teenage sister. “I’d like to go to school, but then how would I pay rent?”
The Labor Department tracks the deaths of foreign-born child workers but no longer makes them public. Reviewing state and federal safety records and public reports, The Times found a dozen cases of young migrant workers killed since 2017, the last year the Labor Department reported any.
One company, Ben & Jerry’s, said it worked with labor groups to ensure a minimum set of working conditions at its dairy suppliers. Cheryl Pinto, the company’s head of values-led sourcing, said that if migrant children needed to work full time, it was preferable for them to have jobs at a well-monitored workplace.
After a week of 17-hour days, she sat at home one night with her aunt and considered her life in the United States. The long nights. The stress about money. “I didn’t have expectations about what life would be like here,” she said, “but it’s not what I imagined.”
His sister did not go to school either, and they had spent the day bickering in their room. Now night had fallen and they were eating Froot Loops for dinner. The heat was off, so they wore winter jackets. In an interview from Guatemala, their mother, Isabel Lopez, cried as she explained that she had tried to join her children in the United States last year but was turned back at the border.
Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children.
A fucking THIRD?! Okay, so this isn't just the huge problem it sounded like on the surface; this is the US government engaging in human trafficking yet again
This is kind of the annoying part about the Sex Trafficking conversation about exploited minors.
Like the gov knows who these kids are. Same thing happens in the Texas CPS system. The kids most likely to be trafficked are well known. They aren't the lily white daughter of the car dealership owner.
“Sponsors” pulling up in box trucks with “child slaves” painted on the side
The Government Officials are more childlike than the Children working the jobs 😂😂
Holy Shit
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My people, what have they done to us? 🙁
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> Trump stops publishing the deaths of foreign-born child workers.
> Biden doesn't undo that.
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A fucking THIRD?! Okay, so this isn't just the huge problem it sounded like on the surface; this is the US government engaging in human trafficking yet again