{"id":24229,"date":"2021-03-08T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T19:39:28","slug":"southern-door-swings-open-for-cheap-child-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/03\/08\/southern-door-swings-open-for-cheap-child-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Door Swings Open for Cheap Child Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Failing to turn back unaccompanied minors at the border, the Biden administration is enabling an influx of cheap labor into the U.S. More than three-quarters<\/a> of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who recently crossed the southwest border were 15-17 years old, a group ripe for exploitation in the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movement of teenage Central American migrants into the semi-hidden, child-labor economy of the U.S. has been documented by ProPublica<\/a>, a left-leaning news organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome began to work when they\nwere just 13 or 14, packing the candy you find by the supermarket register,\ncutting the slabs of raw meat that end up in your freezer and baking, in\nindustrial ovens, the pastries you eat with your coffee,\u201d ProPublica reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bensenville, Ill.,\nProPublica interviewed 15 young migrants hired through temporary staffing\nagencies, with nearly all in situations where federal and state child labor\nlaws would prohibit their employment. One 15-year-old said he owed $3,000 to a\nhuman smuggler who guided him across Mexico from Guatemala. To finance the\ntrip, his parents took out a bank loan, using their house as collateral. If he\ndidn\u2019t repay it, the family could lose its home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breitbart News<\/a> likened the northward extraction of underage laborers to a \u201cHunger Games trail\u201d of loans, coyotes, cartels, rape and cheap-labor exploiters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMigrants who survive the obstacle course win the progressives\u2019 prize of release into the United States where they \u2026 compete for the jobs and housing needed by lower-skilled, lower-income Americans,\u201d Breitbart\u2019s Neil Munro wrote. With the administration handcuffing<\/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, shady child-labor operators figure to have their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On cue, an unprecedented 117,000 unaccompanied minors are now expected to arrive in the U.S. this fiscal year. The Washington Examiner<\/a> suggested the number could be even larger, noting that the Department of Health and Human Services is picking up transportation and resettlement costs for minors while they wait years for their cases to be heard in immigration court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIllegal aliens are highly\nrational thinkers,\u201d Rob Law, of the Center for Immigration Studies, told\nBreitbart. \u201cWhen you have open-borders policies [with]a wink and a nod [from\nDepartment of Homeland Security officials], you know the United States \u2026 is not\ngoing to enforce the law against you, rationally, you should come, and that\u2019s\nexactly what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Failing to turn back unaccompanied minors at the border, the Biden administration is enabling an influx of cheap labor into the U.S. More than three-quarters of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who recently crossed the southwest border were 15-17 years old, a group ripe for exploitation in the workplace. The movement of teenage Central American migrants into<\/p>\n

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