Liberals SHOCKED that "unaccompanied minors" are being exploited in the USA . . .

https://dnyuz.com/2023/02/25/alone-and-exploited-migrant-children-work-brutal-jobs-across-the-u-s/

Last year those on the political left were outraged that “unaccompanied minors” were finding it difficult to illegally enter the USA. So various executive orders and court decisions flooded the country with these kids.

THIS YEAR, the left is outraged that these same minors are working illegally in factories and farms.

Check out the link above. Some kids were allowed entry in to “rejoin” relatives they had never actually met before in their lives. Is it any wonder they made no effort to find these kin, and immediately hit the bricks looking for work?

Okay . . . the link above is focused on kids working a cereal factory. In restaurants. NYC Food delivery. Now imagine the kids the NYT reporters DIDNT find. The "sex workers". Drug mules. Captive nannies and maids, like the ones which elites in Saudi Arabia and China have.

What we have here is a failure of basic logic. If thousands of kids enter the USA without their parents, are given a slip of paper and told to report back in two months, what did anyone EXPECT was going to happen? Certainly our “open borders” activists and media didn't have a clue.

Now these kids are a “scandal”. There is outrage that people would actually hire then. The "villains" are supposedly the places that employ them. Not the people who opened the borders, then turned their backs on them.

Morons make a mess, then point the finger at everyone else.

Full disclosure – NYC now has an estimated 1,500 illegal/unlicensed pot dispensaries. And even a door-dash style marijuana delivery service. How many underaged kids do you think are involved in things like THIS? While you're at it, why not check out those hotels which NYC converted to emergency housing for illegals? I betcha people could buy drugs, or time with an underaged girl there. . . How else do you think they're making money?

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LeopoldBloom · M

Extrapolating from the number of federal labor investigators in the 1940s (when the ratio was highest), Kim Bobo, in her book [i]Wage Theft in America[/i], calculated that we would need around 4,500 of them to account for the increase in population since then. There are something like 800 of them now to cover the entire U.S. In addition to enforcing child labor regulations in states that lack them, they also investigate minimum wage and overtime violations, and enforce the Family and Medical Leave Act, prevailing wage on federal contracts, and laws covering farm workers and temporary nonimmigrant workers.

Isn't this what conservatives are always saying - if you defund the police, criminals will commit crimes. The people to blame for these Oliver Twist conditions are anti-regulation conservatives, not liberals. Republicans in Iowa have proposed revoking child labor laws in those states as long as employers claim to be providing an education service to the kids they exploit.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@LeopoldBloom yeah - all the new laws haven't really moved the needle on labor violations, have they.

i don't have a link, but "various internet sources" commonly cite the use of "unpaid family members, children, and underpaid relatives" as the staffing strategy of ethnic restaurants, motels, landscaping firms, etc.

this is basically a continuation of slavery, or the "indentured servant" model of employment in the 18th century - where tens of thousands of landless english/irish were provided passage to the new world by tradesmen and farmers.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SusanInFlorida Unfortunately, the Fair Labor Standards Act specifically exempts children who work for their parents from minimum wage and overtime laws, and it's Department of Labor policy to not pursue back wages that employers owe their relatives. But if there aren't enough investigators to follow up on all complaints, let alone target problem industries where people don't generally complain at all, this is what happens.

And I'm sorry, I can't work up too much sympathy for the Irish indentured servants when Africans were being sold into actual slavery. The children of indentured servants weren't slaves. I mean, it was fucked up, but after a few generations, they were basically assimilated.

SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@LeopoldBloom one of the hallmarks of modern morality is recognizing exploitation, no matter what race, religion, ethnic group . . . or asking "who had it the worst?"

It's part of the problem leading up to "reverse discrimination" at America's elite colleges, which set quotas on how many asians with super-high SAT scores are allowed to get in.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SusanInFlorida Maybe, but Black people and Native Americans were treated worse than other groups. That's simply a fact, not a competition.

And yeah, it sucks that deserving Asians are being kept out of universities. A few generations ago, it was the Jews. And it wasn't that long ago that Black people couldn't get in either.