It is almost unimaginable this is happening in this country in the 21st century. But it...
Migrant children hold hands as they run in the rain at an intake area in Roma. In a shocking report, the New York Times has detailed the labor exploitation of migrant children as they go through the asylum process.Throughout the country, venal and heartless employers are robbing migrant children of their most important quality — their youth.
Some of the employers are local operations that exploit under-the-table deals, but many are global corporations, including Walmart, Target and General Motors.With the number of migrant children arriving here climbing steadily for almost a decade, the Biden administration promised to create a more efficient system of placing the children with “responsible sponsors,” but in an effort to expedite the process, Health and Human Services cut back reviews that protected the children.
Rick Angstman, a ninth grade social studies teacher at Union High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., has seen the brutalization. One of his students, Carolina, kept passing out from her long night shifts at a commercial laundry. She dropped out after two hospitalizations.
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