Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.
The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”
Do you have to be 18 to work there?
In the article:
Under U.S. labor law, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to work in meatpacking facilities because of the increased risk of injury from dangerous machines and chemicals. A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy was recently killed working in a poultry plant in Mississippi.
I read “the chickens, mainly from Guatemala…”
It’s too early for me to read, apparently
Child slave labor. Jesus. Prison time for the owners please.
You misunderstand. Child labor is legal in agriculture in America. The only problem here was that the children were aliens.
We’ve had the same issue of modern slavery in Germany for over 10 years since Romania has become part of the EU. People working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week while barely earning 200€ and being forced to live with multiple people in one bed(!) or even sleeping in tents near the factories. Most of these people are young men brought to Germany under the impression that they will have a better life but ending up in a vicious cycle and are unable to escape because their managers will take away their passports upon arrival
No arrests were made at the time of the operation, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
Rob a 7-11 for a $200 - arrested immediately. Child labour for 25+ kids - requires more investigation.
They won’t even get fined more than they profited.
This is one of those things that makes me proud of the FBI.
I know that labor rights are hard slanted toward capital in the United States for things like the most common theft in the US: wage theft isn’t even a crime. It must be resolved in civil not criminal court.
So the fallout will be a good way to judge how effective the US and the FBI are at dismantling that oppressive plantation.
Why? The FBI didn’t arrest anyone. What are you even flapping about?
ACAB
Of course, the horrific flip side to this is that the end result (hopefully with the companies actually getting in trouble) is still going to be to deport all these kids.
And if they can’t find their parents, I would expect they’d just stick them on a plane and kick them out of the airport on the other end in Guatemala.
Seems like they may be legal and documented, just not properly protected
HHS finds homes for unaccompanied minors, sending them to live with adult sponsors who may be relatives or family friends. In the report, submitted to HHS and Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D.-Ill., the Government Accountability Project said whistleblowers it represents allege the agency’s case management system may have failed to match all children with thoroughly vetted sponsors and did not track the children properly after they left government care.
