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The Biden administration has been ignoring warnings that migrant child labor has been running rampant in the U.S. in recent years, according to mainstream media reports.
Even liberal outlets like The New York Times and Democracy Now! are lambasting the Biden regime for failing to prevent the exploitation of illegal alien children.
The NY Times article titled, “As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings,” breaks down how the Biden team repeatedly ignored warnings about vulnerable migrant children forced into labor across America after illegally crossing the collapsed southern border.
From the NY Times:
Over the past two years, more than 250,000 migrant children have come alone to the United States. Thousands of children have ended up in punishing jobs across the country — working overnight in slaughterhouses, replacing roofs, operating machinery in factories — all in violation of child labor laws, a recent Times investigation showed. After the article’s publication in February, the White House announced policy changes and a crackdown on companies that hire children.
But all along, there were signs of the explosive growth of this labor force and warnings that the Biden administration ignored or missed, The Times has found.
Again and again, veteran government staffers and outside contractors told the Health and Human Services Department, including in reports that reached Secretary Xavier Becerra, that children appeared to be at risk. The Labor Department put out news releases noting an increase in child labor. Senior White House aides were shown evidence of exploitation, such as clusters of migrant children who had been found working with industrial equipment or caustic chemicals.
An illegal alien child named Antonio explained how he was forced to work at 12 years old in Florida, and claimed other children indentured into work was a common occurrence.
“A few blocks away, a boy working construction said he felt ashamed about not knowing how to read. He, too, was released in 2021 — at age 12 — and was immediately put to work by a man who had sponsored at least five children. At a day-labor pickup site, a 13-year-old released last year to a man he had never met said he wished he could enroll in middle school and start learning English,” the Times reported.
“People don’t know,” Antonio said, “but there are a lot of kids here living the same life.”
The Times agreed with Antonio, claiming, “There are too many in the same situation,” and adding that “more seem to arrive each week,” as if the outlet wasn’t aware the southern U.S. border had been essentially open since Biden captured the White House in 2021.
The Labor Department, Health and Human Services, and the Biden White House have all been trying to shift blame on each other for not properly addressing this human rights travesty.
H.H.S. officials said the department vetted sponsors sufficiently but could not control what happened to children after they were released. Monitoring workplaces, they said, was the job of the Department of Labor.
Officials at the Labor Department said inspectors had increased their focus on child labor and shared details about workers with H.H.S., but said it was not a welfare agency.
And White House officials said that while the two departments had passed along information about migrant child labor, the reports were not flagged as urgent and did not make clear the scope of the problem. Robyn M. Patterson, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement that the administration was now increasing scrutiny of employers and reviewing its vetting of sponsors.
“If I saw it, they could have put it together,” said Linda Brandmiller, an immigration lawyer. “There were so many opportunities to connect those dots that no one ever did.”
An H.H.S. spokeswoman said the agency had no record of Brandmiller’s complaint.
But H.H.S. official Jallyn Sualog also raised the alarm to the Biden administration in numerous emails and even formal complaints to no avail.
“I feel like short of protesting in the streets, I did everything I could to warn them,” Sualog said of the administration. “They just didn’t want to hear it.”
Though shocking, this development is unsurprising considering Joe Biden collapsed the southern border and the federal government has been secretly flying illegal aliens around the country for years on taxpayer dollars, essentially facilitating human trafficking in the U.S.
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